I don't see any reason to be shocked about marcos statement about dropbox. Dropbox has the only advantage to be the first cloud-storage provider who get's the

I don't see any reason to be shocked about marcos statement about dropbox. Dropbox has the only advantage to be the first cloud-storage provider who get's the job done right. It's not Dropbox's security that made it so popular, it's just the way how simple it is to setup. Create an account, download the client, insert credentials and BAM you're ready to go. There is also an alternative to Dropbox called "Sparkleshare" (http://sparkleshare.org/ http://sparkleshare.org/) it's nearly equal to dropbox's functionality (except the webinterface). The only reason why i'm not using it (yet) is the fact that they use there own IRC server to keep your data in sync (some kind of sync-messaging between your client machines). So if you're having real security concerns, you can use sparkleshare and use your own IRC server (https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki/Notification-service https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki/Notification-serv...). Rent a small/slowish VPS with enough hdd space for your needs, run sparkleshare on it and you have your own dropbox. :)