Sync Your Files without Trusting the Cloud

The company behind the Bittorrent protocol is working on software that can replicate most features of file-syncing services without handing your data to cloud servers.

The debate over how much we should trust cloud companies with our data (see NSA Spying Is Making Us Less Safe) was reawakened last year after revelations that the National Security Agency routinely harvests data from Internet companies including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook.