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In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/ http://www.drop-dropbox.com/). I don't k
by new299 11y ago
In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/ http://www.drop-dropbox.com/). I don't know what their future holds. But personally, with a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data, and I wont be using their service.
I'd hope their customers are also looking at the security of their data in light of this and seeking out alternatives.
- bad_user 11y agoOut of curiosity, what do you use?
- thestu 11y agoDon't know about him, but I use -- https://www.sync.com/ https://www.sync.com/
- kobayashi 11y agoThis is the first I'm hearing about Sync. Any comparison with SpiderOak?
- ZacharyPitts 11y agoEver since drop-dropbox happened due to Rice, I've been happily using SpiderOak on Windows/OSX/Android/iOS systems. Fine interface with customizable options that I need.
- kobayashi 11y agoIn reading about Sync, I was surprised to see their claim that they never hold the encryption keys, even when signing in from mobile devices. This is in contrast to SpiderOak, which says that if one signs in from a mobile device or on the website, they hold keys in RAM for the session.
- ljk 11y agowhat's your take on this? - https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2016/01/future-of-diversity-at-dropbox/ https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2016/01/future-of-diversit...
- smt88 11y agoWhy do you ask? I don't see how the two are related.
- ljk 11y agothey're not related, was just wondering is all
- new299 11y agoIt's off topic but... Personally I'm the guy who ticks "prefer not to say" when a form requests my "ethnic origin" so I don't particularly like that method of measuring diversity.
- kzhahou 11y agoThis is a rare opportunity where a regular person can hold a member of the Bush pro-war team accountable, if even in some small way.
- Dirlewanger 11y agoEh, red herring. You really think Dropbox is the one sole large US cloud storage company that's bravely resisting the NSA's grasp?
- gerbilly 11y ago>with a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data Finally someone said it. Putting my files on someone else's computer is a concept totally alien to me. If the mob or a russian crime ring offered free online storage, openly advertised as such, I'd fully expect people to line up to store their tax returns and visa statements on it. I keep that stuff encrypted and offline most of the time in my own home, much less on dropbox.
- prostoalex 11y agoI think in a twisted way it's sort of beneficial as outright there's no promise of encryption or security, implying you should take care of it yourself, client-side. This follows the Unix philosophy where a utility does one thing and does it well, and if you need two jobs done, you pipe one through another.