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Is this a problem with tech? I imagine the users who decided to put sensitive data on dropbox are personally liable? Legal might have work to do? But i fail to

Is this a problem with tech? I imagine the users who decided to put sensitive data on dropbox are personally liable? Legal might have work to do? But i fail to see the tech challenge?

robjan 7y ago
It seems that Dropbox was hosting all of the production data and being used as some kind of document store / db system in this story.
- lazylizard 7y ago
  Can tech fix it by 1. Disabling the dropbox account? 2. Stopping dropbox urls from resolving in their lan if need be? Or blocking dropbox ips? 3. Buying a md1280 or similar storage quickly n put a freenas or similar on it? 4. Put syncthing or similar on all the user computers n this new nas?
  - lazylizard 7y ago
    Actually why is dropbox involved if its a git directory???
    - lazylizard 7y ago
      Git annex? Sparkleshare? Can tech just stop the dropbox bit n just set up sparkleshare for everyone if git is holding up? If git is less than efficient..then syncthing, seafile would all work for their file sharing needs n r trivial to setup?
      - djrogers 7y ago
        I think you missed the part where it’s not Dropbox as a file sharing solution that’s the only problem - their entire web app runs via Dropbox API calls from Heroku!
    - justinclift 7y ago
      They probably started out with Dropbox "back in the day" as a way for shared access to things (eg employees in multiple locations), and never put adequate time into moving to something more appropriate later on. Btw, it sounded like the "version control" mentioned wasn't git. Maybe they're doing full copies of the application + data into a timestamped directory or similar. That kind of thing chews disk space. :/
o-__-o 7y ago
As an employee, you are shielded from all civil liability and some criminal liability. Sure you may be named in a lawsuit but it’s because you represent the llc/Corp and your only responsibility is to forward the documents to your upper management/legal department.

Is this a problem with tech? I imagine the users who decided to put sensitive data on dropbox are personally liable? Legal might have work to do? But i fail to see the tech challenge?

robjan 7y ago

It seems that Dropbox was hosting all of the production data and being used as some kind of document store / db system in this story.

lazylizard 7y ago
Can tech fix it by 1. Disabling the dropbox account? 2. Stopping dropbox urls from resolving in their lan if need be? Or blocking dropbox ips? 3. Buying a md1280 or similar storage quickly n put a freenas or similar on it? 4. Put syncthing or similar on all the user computers n this new nas?
- lazylizard 7y ago
  Actually why is dropbox involved if its a git directory???
  - lazylizard 7y ago
    Git annex? Sparkleshare? Can tech just stop the dropbox bit n just set up sparkleshare for everyone if git is holding up? If git is less than efficient..then syncthing, seafile would all work for their file sharing needs n r trivial to setup?
    - djrogers 7y ago
      I think you missed the part where it’s not Dropbox as a file sharing solution that’s the only problem - their entire web app runs via Dropbox API calls from Heroku!
  - justinclift 7y ago
    They probably started out with Dropbox "back in the day" as a way for shared access to things (eg employees in multiple locations), and never put adequate time into moving to something more appropriate later on. Btw, it sounded like the "version control" mentioned wasn't git. Maybe they're doing full copies of the application + data into a timestamped directory or similar. That kind of thing chews disk space. :/

o-__-o 7y ago

As an employee, you are shielded from all civil liability and some criminal liability. Sure you may be named in a lawsuit but it’s because you represent the llc/Corp and your only responsibility is to forward the documents to your upper management/legal department.