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Oh yeah, I'm going to download a script from a website I've never heard of and pipe it into shell without review.

Even if 99 percent of the time nothing benign is happening, why get people used to doing this?

It's gotten much easier to both upgrade and to install software. Example:

To apply security patches:

  freebsd-update fetch  

  freebsd-update install
To upgrade to a new version of the operating system:
  freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade
To install software:
  pkg install chromium
You can still use the ports system if you want to, but pkg is so much easier.

I wouldn't say the init scripts on OpenBSD are complex:

# cat smtpd

#!/bin/sh # # $OpenBSD: smtpd,v 1.4 2012/10/26 06:51:59 ajacoutot Exp $

daemon="/usr/sbin/smtpd"

. /etc/rc.d/rc.subr

pexp="smtpd: \[priv\]"

rc_reload=NO

rc_cmd $1

6. No client-side encryption

7. Deceptive advertising. Telling their customers that they encrypt data enroute and at rest without telling them that they use a single common password for every customer.

Amazon has a history of creating web applications (I'm thinking about their MP3 cloud drive) and then seemingly abandoning all further development. Either they have small teams of developers that move from project to project, or it is outsourced.

I'm not confident in Amazon's long term approach to these products.

I'm a advanced-amateur photographer and half of my photos are RAW format, not JPG's. I'll be surprised if this offering supports any format besides JPG.

Here's my theory (step-by-step):

1. Truecrypt is a gigantic pain-in-the-side for US intelligence agencies.

2. Intelligence agencies brainstorm about the best way to deal with the situation.

3. Taking over and tampering with the current code is deemed unrealistic. The user base of Truecrypt is very sophisticated and even minor changes to the source code would be scrutinized.

4. "How can be get people to stop using Truecrypt?" "We can discredit the project - get people to voluntarily stop using it because they don't trust it".

Anyone considering doing business with Dwolla should read up on how they treated their customer TradeHill. (Google it). The internet has a long memory.

I am more than willing to give FastMail twenty USD per year, so it is not expensive in that regard, but it is expense for what you get. 1GB of space? Give me a break. All of the tiers need to shift down a notch while keeping the price the same. $20 for 10 GB would be reasonable.