Wuala featured in Cash-TV

In case you missed the transmission from yesterday night, you can watch the video again here

or directly on the video portal here. The report about Cloud Storage starts at 14:15. Watch and enjoy :)

Court rules you cannot be compelled to reveal your password

An interesting legal question related to encrypted storage system is: can the police force you to give them your password?

This is particularily relevant for Wuala which uses client-side encryption. Most other cloud storage providers can read your files if they want to and therefore could also hand them over to a court if they think that's appropriate. Wuala works differently. If you have stored a file in Wuala, no one, not even LaCie can read your files. The only way to get access to your files is by knowing your password.

In most legal systems, a court cannot compel you to incriminate yourself. You have the right to remain silent. One could conclude that this includes the right to remain silent when you are asked about your password. However, things are much more complicated than that and it remains unclear to this day.

There are cases like this one in Britain where a teenager was jailed for 16 weeks for refusing to give his password. In a recent US ruling, the court decided that the defendant cannot be compelled to give the password, but to enter it. In the latest US ruling regarding this question, the court ruled that the defendant cannot be compelled to reveal his password or enter it since there was no evidence that the encrypted disk would contain any incriminating data.

Here, here, and here are interesting discussions about this matter.

Well well, who do we have here?

My name is Simon and I'm brand new at Wuala as a Software Engineer. I'm also brand new in Switzerland, having arrived here from New Zealand last year.

Now I am excited to be part of the Wuala team, alongside some really smart people. I'm really looking forward to contributing to the cool technology here, and getting involved in the world of Wuala.

Simon

Android Update - New Features!

Earlier today we released an update (Version 2.2) in the Android Market.

This update has some important new features. You can now edit files from within Wuala and the changes will be re-uploaded automatically. You're also able to delete files and folders now.

But there are even more advantages:

• Improved up-/download speed if WiFi is available
• Improved offline support
• Improved Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) support
• Improved Android 3 (Honeycomb, Tablets) support
• a lot of bug fixes, design and application improvements

You can get the update here.

Wuala Talk with Alumni from the University of Zurich

Yesterday our CTO, Luzius Meisser, had a talk with former students from the University of Zurich and their professor who wanted to know more about what Wuala is doing.

You'll find more pictures here. Thanks to the Alumni from the University of Zurich for visiting the Wuala Office, we hope you had an informative and interesting time.

If you want to know more about Wuala, check out our about page. And if you have any questions just let us know, we're happy to help.

Group Access For iOS

We're really happy to introduce Group Access for iOS.

 

Now you can access your files in all of your public as well as private groups. Everything on the go.

Did you want to catch up with the latest report before going to the meeting or view the last statistics from your finance department? Or did you just want to take a look at the latest pictures that you share with your family?

With the newest iOS update (v 2.07) from Wuala all this is now possible.

You can read the latest newsletter here or get Wuala from the App Store now.

The newsletter is also available in German and French.

Wuala supports UNAIDS

UNAIDS mission is to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. They bring together the resources of the UNAIDS Secretariat and 10 UN system organizations for coordinated and accountable efforts to unite the world against AIDS.

We wanted to contribute to that special work that UNAIDS is providing. With so many people involved in different countries, a centralized storage service makes it a lot easier do handle all the data volume, plus there is no need to waste paper through printed documents.

We hope that you too can make a donation and support UNAIDS to continue their work. Please go to donations.unaids.org and donate whatever you can. Every amount is greatly appreciated.