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If I were going with a cynical thought, I would think this is a move to get dropbox into government contracts somehow.
by LanceH 13y ago
If I were going with a cynical thought, I would think this is a move to get dropbox into government contracts somehow.
- cryoshon 13y agoAgreed. With Condi comes access to all sorts of government entities, and the contacts to make those entities work in favor of whatever Dropbox needs them for. This appointment smacks of the corporate-political complex. It's practically inevitable that USG resources will be used in favor of Dropbox's business at some point.
- thickness 13y agoI agree, that's probably what's going here. But the thing is, a lot of this stuff works quid pro quo. What might happen is, USG will pay Dropbox a nice penny to use some of its service... aaaaaand in exchange they also set up a deal to snoop on Dropbox users.
- judk 13y agoDropbox has such a security non-policy that there is no need to sign any deals.
- metric10 13y agoKind of like Al Gore on Apple's board?
- droopyEyelids 13y agoThe worst part of this, for me, is how damn inefficient Dropbox becomes when it's used in a large environment. I pray the government isn't saddled with the same problems I'm facing. (user management, share management, every user having permission to duplicate or destroy all files they can read, inability of admins to fix those changes, no API access for any administrative or reporting feature, inability to control own encryption)
- EC1 13y agoGod am I ever a cynic. The first thing I thought of immediately was government tampering and the NSA, and that was my only and immediate thought.
- boondox 13y agoWith my tinfoil hat securely fastened, who wants to hazard a guess that this is just a 'distraction' to the Heartbleed news that the NSA could've exploited for their own nefarious means?