SpiderOak Semaphor [video]

https://spideroak.com/solutions/semaphor

by artsandsci • 10 years ago

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wonderlusts• 10 years ago

This is an early release for OSX, you should add that to the title.

Numberwang3• 10 years ago

Unfortunately there is not enough information on that page to have an opinion on what it is.

bryanlarsen• 10 years ago

Zero Knowledge Slack, AFAICT.

Numberwang3• 10 years ago

Oh, that does sound good. I was expecting file sharing. Too bad it is Mac only. Not really fitting for a work tool.

rarrrrrr5• 10 years ago

There's quite a bit more info here: https://spideroak.com/solutions/semaphor/tour

mcweaksauce• 10 years ago

Not a big fan of the name... Thought it had to do with concurrency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)

rarrrrrr5• 10 years ago

Good guess. We were thinking of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_semaphore

Semaphoric patterns are used in the application as a more visually appealing means of peer key verification, device provisioning, etc. than say, QR codes.

arijun• 10 years ago

After watching the video on the page "What is Semaphore?", I still have no idea what it is.

It seems like it's Google Drive/Dropbox with end to end encryption, but part of the copy is about how people "used to work with files and folders", implying that they no longer do. If there are no files it can't be Dropbox, can it?

rarrrrrr5• 10 years ago

(I didn't submit this, but thanks to the OP! This is an early access preview... General availability is very soon)

10 years ago SpiderOak made a zero-knowledge cloud storage product which is now called SpiderOakONE and is comparable to Dropbox. Semaphor is a new app, analogous to Slack or HipChat, with end-to-end encryption, and team/enterprise focused.

It's written in Golang with the client side (local) presentation layer in React. Source and a white paper are published. Cheers!

0942v8653• 10 years ago

I can't believe this. For a professional product. HackerTyper at 0:36 of the video.

rarrrrrr5• 10 years ago

... easter egg. I'm not _quite_ that fast. Dvorak keyboard FTW. :)

SpiderOak Semaphor [video]

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