A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
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A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
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Re: A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
#2What a complete nightmare! I bet that most of that data is useless, and the Dropbox account is just used as a dumping ground for everything and there's no tagging, cataloging, or any sort of data structures.
Re: A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
#3What a complete nightmare! I bet that most of that data is useless, and the Dropbox account is just used as a dumping ground for everything and there's no tagging, cataloging, or any sort of data structures.
My assumption, given the storage requirements for laptops, is that the actual database is 2-3TB is size and that the rest is archived snapshots of the DB.
Re: A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
#4What a complete nightmare! I bet that most of that data is useless, and the Dropbox account is just used as a dumping ground for everything and there's no tagging, cataloging, or any sort of data structures.
My assumption, given the storage requirements for laptops, is that the actual database is 2-3TB is size and that the rest is archived snapshots of the DB.
Assuming that this database has been building up over the past decade, I'm in awe over how much money they must have spent on Laptop's in the early part of this decade.
Re: A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
#5I remember as a freshman in college using Dropbox as version control for a 4-person group project. Even then it was a hurdle. Even with everyone sitting in the same room literally saying "okay I'm working on X nobody touch that file for a couple minutes". Jesus.
Re: A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
#6Is 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?
Re: A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
#7Is 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?
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.
Re: A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
#8The best worst thing I’ve ever read. No idea how they pulled that off for so long.
Re: A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
#9Is 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?
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.
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?
Re: A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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?
Actually why is dropbox involved if its a git directory???