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by angerson 2714 days ago
Thank you for saying so. We've put a lot of work into just getting to this state, and next for us comes a lot more work on both features and security, like you said.

Our focus right now is on independent users who are looking for convenience, since we can't expect to fully support larger groups who have extremely high standards that we can't yet meet.

Edit: Apologies, I didn't intend to dismiss rightfully high security expectations as "extremely high standards". To put it another way, we have to start somewhere, and we've put plenty of work already into the basics, but our obvious next steps are to step up on security while also supporting users who are already willing to use Shellvault as-is. My above comment should have said that we don't yet have the resources to properly support enterprise-grade security concerns.

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Dismissing such basic security concerns as "extremely high standards" is quite off-putting. You need to earn a very, very high level of trust to successfully run such a service, as the other comments in this thread clearly show, and this comment does the opposite, at least for me.
It is hard to imaging that you interviewed any potential users of such a system before building it. You are solving a problem users do not have in a way that creates problems for users.