SpiderOak’s vision is to Secure the World’s Data. Our goal is to reduce the complexity of the security surface to the point where it can be reasoned about, so that assumptions are few, and those that remain are well understood. …

Cryptography, the art and science of encrypting sensitive information, is becoming increasingly commonplace in our day to day lives. From iPhones to bank accounts, most of us already interact with cryptography daily, and increasing numbers of people are recognising the value of VPNs when it comes to protecting their privacy…

This post is by Tomás Touceda, a member of SpiderOak’s Engineering team. At SpiderOak we do a lot of coding in Go. I personally really like Go because it feels like Python with the type safety guard rails and almost magical concurrency helpers. But the point of this post is…

This post is by Renee Jackson, a member of SpiderOak’s Product Management team. It’s 4:30PM on a Friday and the Sales representative working with your department says “I have a client meeting Monday — can you tell me how long it will take to implement the new feature we talked…

This post is by Ben Zimmerman, a member of SpiderOak’s Engineering team. In my last post I talked about planning features at a high level. This time I’ll talk about how we plan for an individual sprint. …

This post is by Chip Black, a member of SpiderOak’s Engineering team. Markdown rendering is very important to the performance of Semaphor — every message you send and read is a Markdown document — so we’re always looking for ways to improve the performance of rendering Markdown. A couple months…

Providing you with tools that help you get the most value out of SpiderOak products is a top priority for our customer success team, and our Help Center is a key component of this mission. …

This post is by Ben Zimmerman, a member of SpiderOak’s Engineering team. Whenever I see discussions of agile workflows I read developers complaining about how it doesn’t work. They’re constantly pushed to do more and to do it faster. That leads to buggy code and missed deadlines. It also, makes…

Over the weekend there has been chatter on the internet about the change at SpiderOak from a Warrant Canary to a Transparency Report. We understand that some people are concerned that this is a signal that we have in some way been compromised. …