I used Dropbox switched to G-Drive and haven't changed ever since. This doesn't change my situation.
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#302I dropped Dropbox at the end of 2011 when the NDAA passed. I felt that 3rd-party cloud storage was no longer private enough or secure enough. After Snowden, seems I was correct.
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#303Rice is a war criminal. The Government is full of war criminals. Both parties are led by war criminals. We don't need war criminals in tech. Its bad enough with all the brogrammers
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#304I used to use my own Dropbox account at work teaching kids computer-stuff, so they'd have an easy way to share files and a place to store their things without having to remember which particular PC they worked at last time (and messing about with USB sticks back and forth, it was chaos). This was of course a bad idea, especially after I got a Galaxy S4 phone, which came with a 50GB Dropbox upgrade, and I started usin…
Somebody explain me why this got downvoted? It was a sincere attempt to contribute to the discussion (if perhaps a tad long maybe?), and I didn't say anything really controversial, did I? I mean, it might be a specific use-case, but I figured personal stories would be what this thread is about ... ?
Your post was directly on topic. It directly addressed your feelings about Dropbox and about Condi Rice. Beats me why it got downvoted.
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#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I was able to argue back without resorting to name calling. And so was I. What's your point? You use words like "naiveté", "delusion", "meaningless" which are clearly derogatory so you are wrong again. Hilariously your comment "all the comments I've seen thus far are civil" completely rung true until you got involved.
Then perhaps we misunderstand each other. I used those terms to describe (accurately, in my opinion) your opinions, they have nothing to do with you as a person.
Nonsense. The things you say about a persons opinions are still things you say against that person. It just becomes more acceptable in some circles to describe someone as having naive opinions than describing the person as naive.
The best course of action is to leave the emotive language out of the discussion.
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#306I continue to use Dropbox the way I always have: it's for stuff that I don't mind the rest of the world finding out. For example, I have my O'Reilly library delivered through Dropbox. I have cheat sheets, bookmark lists, cat pictures and what not on Dropbox.
I always treated Dropbox as if it was a wholly owned subsidiary of the NSA. Having Condoleeza Rice on the board doesn't move my opinion away from that state.
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Um sorry I am confused. Are you saying that C. Rice is going to help dropbox "navigate political regulatory waters"... in favor of their users? Am I understanding this correctly? C. Rice watches out for me?
Yes. What do you think happens when a public official transitions to the private sector? That they are a plant still serving their old employer? Or, perhaps, that they are applying skills and knowledge learned in their old job to a their new role for a new employer?
Just don't get confused about who Condoleeza Rice is working to support. It's not you, the user, it's Dropbox as a company.
There are many decisions that Dropbox will have to make which will not be in your favour but will be in theirs. If you're lucky, they'll even tell you about those decisions.
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#308I dropped and then signed up again because I needed some way to sync my 1Password data from my laptop to my Android phone (I was previously using iCloud on an iPhone). Annoying, but I sleep fine at night.
I use WiFi sync on 1Password specifically to avoid syncing through Dropbox or iCloud.
Anything stored on servers in the USA, UK, New Zealand or Australia should be treated as compromised, exposed or public information.
I certainly wouldn't hand my 1password file to random strangers in the street, much less anyone associated with any kind of law enforcement or intelligence agency.
So treat cloud storage as that random stranger in the street. Sure, E's always there with your bag of loot and E's pretty reliable about giving your stuff back, but you have no guarantee that E isn't letting everyone else look at what's in your bag (or that other folks haven't figured out a way to see what's going into and out of the bag, or figured out a way to determine what's in the bag without letting E know they're looking).
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#309i dropped it not only because of rice, but because they were going through people's files looking for DMCA content. You can read about this on /. I expect a cloud service to protect my files and not snoop through them, or even better encrypt them as they are stored, so the only one who can access/decrypt them is myself, or whomever I decide to share them with. Go Mega!!! BTW, my usage for this is to transfer/share files for business contracts/projects, not to steal video's.