![]() Various discussions of the rclone ban on Reddit and Hacker News suggest some of those using rclone were uploading vast amounts of data to take advantage of Amazon's absurd commitment to infinite data warehousing.Īnd it's possible some of that material may include unlawfully copied or illegal content. Where Amazon Drive's web interface might place practical limits on high-volume usage, programmatic access to the service makes it cheaper than S3, Amazon's professional storage service, albeit without any service level or availability guarantees. There's speculation that Amazon may be having second thoughts about promising unlimited storage for $5 per month. About two weeks ago, it stopped admitting new developers. He had hoped to avoid maintaining such a server because he will have to secure it to safeguard all the individual credentials that pass through the server.Īmazon launched its Drive API in November, 2014, back when the service was called Cloud Drive. Presently, he is waiting to hear from Amazon about getting new credentials so he can build an authentication server that keeps the app's OAuth2 key secret. But he said the more than 6,000 stars on the software's GitHub repository offers some indication of its popularity. Because the software is open source, there's no record of the number of users. He speculated that Amazon may have started paying more attention to client software after there were security issues with an authentication server for acd_cli, another Amazon Cloud Drive client app that has also been banned.Ĭraig-Wood said hundreds or possibly thousands of people who use rclone have been affected. ![]() "This is completely in violation to the consent provided by the customer that their information can only be accessed by a particular third party."Ĭraig-Wood, who was aware of Amazon's concerns at the time, said it was unclear why Amazon had decided to ban rclone now, but acknowledged that Amazon may be concerned about the potential for other apps to represent themselves as rclone using rclone's key. ![]() ![]() "If the client secret goes to open source code that means it becomes public and theoretically anyone can use the same client ID/secret to impersonate this client," an Amazon moderator identified as Ross said in January, 2016. The software's non-compliance with AWS rules came up in an Amazon Developer Forums thread dating back to October, 2015. ![]()
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