Security
Most clouds ask you to hand over everything and take their word for it. Mive is built the other way around: your files stay on your own disk, and we keep no copy of them — ever. To connect your devices we run a relay that passes the traffic through, but it stores nothing. Here's exactly how that works — and exactly what we keep.
Your files are never uploaded to us, copied, scanned, or stored — they live only on your own disk. To link your devices, Mive runs a relay that forwards the traffic between them. The data passes through it in transit, but the relay keeps none of it: no contents, no copies, nothing written to disk, not even for a moment.
The part of Mive that's reachable over the network runs under its own restricted operating-system account that can only ever touch the folders you pick — each one fenced individually. It isn't a setting we promise to honour — your operating system enforces the boundary. A second, more privileged piece handles only the secure connection and never touches your files. It doesn't open up the rest of your machine, and it uninstalls cleanly — your files stay exactly where they are.
Nothing is shared until you say so. You share a file or a folder with one specific person, invited by their email address, as a Viewer — they can look and download — or an Editor, who can also add and change things. Or you open a link to everyone, no account needed: view-only, or a drop-off link if you want people to send you files. By default a link gives no one access — you're the one who turns it on. And any access can be taken back whenever you want, person by person.
Your devices reach your PC through a private, encrypted tunnel built on WireGuard. The traffic is encrypted the whole way across the network. Mive forwards no router port and reaches the network through an outbound tunnel it dials itself — so no port on your computer is open to the public internet, and there's nothing for strangers online to find or knock on.
Every update is cryptographically signed and checked on your own machine before it installs — and if anything looks wrong, it automatically rolls back. A tampered or partial update simply can't install.
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Our servers never keep
See the exact list in our Privacy Policy.
If Mive were ever breached, there'd be nothing of yours to take: we keep no copy of your files, and store none. And if Mive disappeared tomorrow, every file would stay exactly where it always was — on your own disk. Close your account and we delete what little we hold — your email, your computer names, your share links; your files were never ours to delete, they're already yours.
Mive is built and run by an independent developer — not a data company — and everything runs in the European Union (Germany), under EU privacy law. We'd rather you didn't take any of this on faith: we minimise what you have to trust us with — your files stay on your disk and we keep no copy — and we give you things you can check for yourself.
Found a security issue? We want to hear about it. Email [email protected] (full policy at /.well-known/security.txt). We'll acknowledge your report within 72 hours, and we won't pursue or support legal action against good-faith research that stays in scope. Please give us a reasonable window to ship a fix before public disclosure — we'll keep you updated throughout.
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