![]() These files are then encrypted by Standard Notes offline (client-side) first, then uploaded in their encrypted form to your Dropbox, Google Drive, or WebDAV compliant server (Nextcloud, ownCloud, Seafile, Synology, and others). When you use FileSafe, you attach files (images, videos, documents, and any other kind of file) to your individual notes. Therefore, ownership ultimately lies with these private corporations, and not by you, even if their ever-changing privacy policy seems reassuring.įileSafe is a new platform by Standard Notes that integrates directly with your day-to-day usage of Standard Notes, and serves as an encryption intermediary between you and your favorite cloud provider. These plaintext clouds, however, suffer from one main issue: Dropbox, Google, and similar organizations are free to do as they please with this data, because it is not encrypted. Millions, if not billions, of users today depend on plaintext cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive to store their most important files-files so important, that users place them in the cloud so that they are not lost if something were to happen to their physical device. Today we are happy to announce the release of a new platform that brings the same total privacy you’ve come to expect from Standard Notes for your notes, but to an ever greater aspect of our lives: our personal files. Total privacy is a requisite for participating in modern digital society, and we’re happy to provide this safe haven of free thought and exploration for everyone around the world. Not us, not your ISP, and not even your government can decipher your notes. With encryption, and particularly end-to-end encryption, only you can decrypt the contents of your notes. ![]() ![]() We start with a very simple core experience, offering encryption and easy sync out of the box at no charge so that users around the world can gain a safe place to store their life’s work, without worrying about all the peeping that cloud-based services usually succumb to. ![]() While still early, we're excited to continue development on our in-house encrypted file storage solution, and will share updates on our progress along the way.Users depend on Standard Notes for their most important creations, from notes on projects, to credentials and passwords, to thoughts, ideas, and the entire spectrum of output from their life’s work. While keeping FileSafe around seems like a viable option, FileSafe's reliance on third parties like Dropbox for core functionality results in a precarious and fragile arrangement resulting in sudden API shifts that break our integrations and require recalibration at unannounced intervals. Much has changed since then, and we're glad to announce we're now in a position to invest in our own secure files solution, which is well underway and in development. This architecture allowed us to focus on building a frontend solution without requiring the heavy infrastructure required to build a scalable backend file-hosting architecture, which we weren't yet ready to undertake in 2018. This means that files are encrypted by us but stored in your Dropbox or Google Drive. For existing users who have the FileSafe extension installed, FileSafe will remain accessible indefinitely.įileSafe was launched in 2018 as our concept file storage solution, and uses a bring-your-own-cloud model to store your files. Starting February 9, 2022, FileSafe will be deprecated and no longer offered to new users. ![]()
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