Protect Yourself From The NSA With WireOver’s (YC W12) Encrypted File Sharing

Closed source, no thanks. I'm going to follow their approach of "trust no one" and not trust them and warmly recommend everyone to do the same. If you actually mind about security, use GPG.

<i>Really</i> good copy on the WireOver homepage. Kudos!<p>I counted a mere 99 words (not including navigation) and every one of them tells. Concise and casual is a powerful combination.<p>I especially like the slogan&#x2F;pitch:<p><i>Send Big Files Really Securely</i> tells me exactly what the product does and makes me think it&#x27;ll be easy and fun to use.

Important to note that only paid accounts get end-to-end encryption. Transfers on free accounts are unencrypted.<p><a href="http://www.wireover.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wireover.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a>

I tried it few months ago and was not impressed. The installer hung on the first run. The app itself crashed. When I tried again in a week they seemed to have a new version and that one actually launched. However it looked completely foreign in Windows as if it were written in Tcl&#x2F;Tk or some other cross-platform oddity. I clicked through the UI, tried to initiate the file transfer and then gave up. The reason was not that it didn&#x27;t work, but that it looked as a half-baked product that shouldn&#x27;t really be let out, even into the beta. You&#x27;d expect to find something like this on SourceForge, but not in a form of a commercial <i>security</i> product. It just wasn&#x27;t trust inspiring :-|<p>That said I realize that they could&#x27;ve redone the app from scratch in past few months, so take the above for what it is - an impression from a beta.

I use <a href="https://www.sharefest.me/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sharefest.me&#x2F;</a> for quick file transfers and it just works with only a web browser. Only downside is Chrome and Firefox don&#x27;t inter-operate.<p>Not that sure about level of security, but I have a harder time trusting proprietary software over OSS stuff.<p>With sharefest I could even run my own service if I wanted to, all the code is on Github.

Source visible? How are keys exchanged? How do you make sure the person you are sending the file to is in fact that person and not someone else?

Why did it take so long to launch? It looked like it was ready to go ~2 years ago.

for a free similar service check out:<p><a href="https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abemassry&#x2F;wsend-gpg</a><p>its a little different premise, but worth checking out

So if sending files in the clear is free, whats stopping me from encrypting the files myself and then sending them? Is their value in key exchange, convenience?

Congrats on launching! I met Trent briefly a few months ago, but it&#x27;s clear he has an awesome focus on building a solid, secure product. It seems like it took a while to get this out the door but when your core value prop is security, you can&#x27;t really cut corners.<p>Haven&#x27;t sent a file yet but the download&#x2F;signup flow was super easy - I was ready to send in about 20 seconds.

Didn&#x27;t Sendoid do this from YC W11?

I like their warrant canary for the simple reason that it says &quot;we have received 0 requests from any government agencies to provide any information about any of the following: our users, transfers, code, security architecture, or security credentials.&quot;<p>Although, making a list explicit like that is a creative lawyer challenge to look forward to - I&#x27;m not going to ask for something on that list, but I&#x27;ll ask about something else...

Just started using btsync and pretty impressed with the ease of use so far.. Couldn&#x27;t get dropbox going on Linux..

Thank you, commenters. Your feedback carries weight.<p>We have a &quot;Friends of WireOver&quot; group that we&#x27;ll occasionally ask for feedback, advice, and new release testing. Email friends_at_wireover_dot_com to join.

How do you uninstall this?<p>Edit: Click gear icon, go to About tab and there is an uninstall button. Support was very quick to respond to me.

I just create a torrent for the big file and email that torrent to the recipient...

Congrats on the launch!

If not in-browser, not interested; sorry.