My Usage of PersonalBrain - Or how I manged to got (almost) cured from CRIMPING

Posted by moritz
Feb 28, 2012 at 02:51 AM

I am sympathetic to the price point because of the cost of running the service; that typically only gets cheap if you can get to a (fairly large) scale - think Amazon, Microsoft, Google ...

My issue with the Brain cloud service is that I don’t trust the data encryption approach. Ideally, data would never get decrypted on the server side, only through a password on the client. That would provide a relative measure of security.
Given convenience features such as the web UI for webbrain, as far as I understand decryption does happen to some extent on the server / in the cloud service.
Not good enough for sensitive business information, actually a bit of irony here: The more strategic and “important” (strategic) your use of the Brain becomes, the less likely you are going to find the cloud storage provisions to be acceptable.
This issue is quite common and affects a lot of similar services.

Will continue to use Windows Live Mesh peer to peer sync going forward ...

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>TheBrain is indeed brilliant for personal use, but its competitive advantage ends
>more or less when you want to collaborate. I recently asked for more info on TeamBrain
>http://www.thebrain.com/products/teambrain/ which seemed liked the answer to my
>collaboration blues. I received the following re pricing: “After trial, cost is
>$299.95 per person annually. This includes a license for PersonalBrain Pro and all
>software upgrades are free. This is our current beta price, next month once we release
>officially, the cost will increase to $349.95.”
> >There’s no way my SME can justify
>such a cost. So the search continues. After years of CRIMPing for the ideal tool in
>terms of functionality, I am now willing to give up a lot of that (and you usually do give
>up a lot when moving from software to webware) in exchange for the ability to
>collaborate.
>