On: New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Eve...

[merijnv]

The reason I trust (to the extend I trust anything on this planet) Tarsnap is that Colin Percival (the creator) is a cryptographer and the FreeBSD security officer. Leading to me have a higher confidence in him than most of the other "secure" backup services I have seen.

[josscrowcroft → merijnv]

Yeah that's what I mean - it looks more trustworthy than something over-designed with 5 carefully-crafted price plans. Think I'll give it a shot soon. Thanks!

[polymatter → josscrowcroft]

and when there was a critical security bug in Tarsnap, he behaved with extraordinary integrity and openness (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-18-tarsnap-critical-...).

More than anything else, cpercival earned my trust simply by being honest. There are precious few companies I could say this about.