Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
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Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
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Re: Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
#2Hmm... so you can publicly share your mp3s and videos?
Haven't we heard of this before (mp3.com)... I wonder how they'll deal with "infringement" cases from the media cartel?
As a current dropbox user, I'm a bit concerned about this functionality (since by default public means public but unlisted, it can still be shared). Hope these guys did a bit of homework here.
Re: Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
#3 Share any folder or file in your Dropbox without having to
move it to the Public folder. So you can just right-click
on a file to share it.
Re: Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
#4Hmm... so you can publicly share your mp3s and videos? Haven't we heard of this before (mp3.com)... I wonder how they'll deal with "infringement" cases from the media cartel? As a current dropbox user, I'm a bit concerned about this functionality (since by default public means public but unlisted, it can still be shared). Hope these guys did a bit of homework here.
You can already publicly share files in Dropbox, even with those who don’t have a Dropbox account. They have to be in your “Public” folder (if you don’t have one you can create one).
Here is a link to a file in my public Dropbox folder: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/Dropbox.txt
I have never actually seen anyone share Dropbox links to pirated content. I don’t know why that is (pirates seem to use all other services which allow you to upload files) but as far as I can see, Dropbox has no big problems with piracy.
Re: Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
#5Dropbox is one of those companies I gladly hand over $10/month to.
Invaluable for backup, let alone for storage.
Re: Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
#6Any files and folders that haven't been specifically made public by users through the existing "Public" sharing model and/or the new shareable link model are Private and inaccessible to anyone who does not have direct access to a user's Dropbox account.
The new sharing model allows you to create links to folders and individual files outside of the "Public" and "Photos" folders. The feature is currently still being tested and it has only been enabled for a subset of users. The links created by this sharing model utilize SSL, they can be revoked at any time by going to dropbox.com/share (in the "links" section) and they only provide access to the specific folder or files that the users creates the link to.
We also have specific policies with regards to intellectual property. More information about this and other Dropbox policies can be found here:
Re: Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
#7The one thing that Dropbox fails on, together with just about every other version control system, is that novice users (or your business-type cofounders), easily create conflicts with Word, Excel and other files.
There's no easy way to handle it, but the current way is very annoying at best. Most of the time I guess it, and delete the one I think is wrong, but one day that will lead to the loss of some important changes.
It's hard to merge every type of document, but atleast give me the best info, or a list of conflicts: who created it, when the versions were each last edited, file sizes, etc. Often a user will edit an old copy of the file and wreak havoc.
Finally, dropbox syncs _everytime_ I view an Office document. Must be Word's fault, but it's annoying.
Re: Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
#8Share any folder or file in your Dropbox without having to move it to the Public folder. So you can just right-click on a file to share it. Hmmm, I have to say, this concerns me. It seems to open up security vulnerabilities that are currently not present. I'm sure they'll do a fine job implementing it, but this makes me wary and watchful for the security of my files.
Well, it gives careless users more rope to hang themselves, but I'm not sure it changes anything in principle. The Linux version at least works by running a binary that they ship you, which runs with your uid and communicates with their servers. Short of building from source yourself (if you can get the source!), you already have to trust them to ship code which looks at only the stuff that they're supposed to be looking at, and not to be rifling through your firefox history on the side.
Re: Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion
#9Share any folder or file in your Dropbox without having to move it to the Public folder. So you can just right-click on a file to share it. Hmmm, I have to say, this concerns me. It seems to open up security vulnerabilities that are currently not present. I'm sure they'll do a fine job implementing it, but this makes me wary and watchful for the security of my files.
Well, it gives careless users more rope to hang themselves, but I'm not sure it changes anything in principle. The Linux version at least works by running a binary that they ship you, which runs with your uid and communicates with their servers. Short of building from source yourself (if you can get the source!), you already have to trust them to ship code which looks at only the stuff that they're supposed to be loo…
It's not dropbox I'm worried about, so much as the fact that a system that has the ability to make public any file at the owners direction, could be potentially exploited to make public any file without the owners direction.
Are non-public files now accessible to third parties who have the correct url? Is there code that maps encoded url's to every file in my dropbox? If so, this is a security vulnerability that is not present currently.
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#10Dropbox works in china partially. Even though it is blocked, you just need to connect to the VPN shortly, and even if you disconnect, after that it works fine.