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Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

#131
post #31

It's pretty absurd that so many people are this willing to attack a woman just because of her political views. This kind of crap is what Fox News uses to claim all liberals are jack-booted fascists just waiting to setup USSR v2.0 here in America.

Boycotting a service is pretty far from any kind of attack. Additionally it is a lot more than her political views. She played a central role in securing the legality of the torture program, authorized the warrant less wiretaps of UN council members, and was the National Security Advisor immediately before the Iraq war. This is the free market at work.

1. I strongly disagree with the torture program, but I still don't think it's grounds for boycotting Dropbox, unless you are under the impression that she's pushing for a Torture Division at Dropbox.

2. Foreign diplomats are not subject to warrants and are exactly the sort of people that get spied upon. I guarantee you that every major country is spying on every foreign diplomat, limited only by their ability. While I don't think private citizens should be spied on, if you are in a diplomatic post you should just expect it.

3. I view the Iraq War as legitimate, as do most people, and she did a stellar job in her role as National Security Advisor.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

#132

I 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.

Agreed on this point. If 1Password supported Google Drive (specifically on mobile) I would drop dropbox.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

#134
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you really want is "I dropped Dropbox for an unrelated reason". The poll is trying to determine whether the call to boycott dropbox due to Condi Rice's appointment actually got anywhere. The OP's suggested answers would make it easier to answer the original question. Your answer, as I see it, would just add noise.

Yeah, I'm just not sure why anyone would drop it over that specific appointment. It's already clear that DropBox can read your files for shits and giggles. If you have privacy concerns, you're going to pick something where that's not possible anyways. Maybe someone can explain this to me - is it just partisan political crap?

At the time the appointment was announced there was a fair bit of outrage, and a big call to action around boycotting dropbox over it. It seems like following up on that call to action is actually a pretty interesting thing to do.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

#136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see BitTorrent Sync in your list of alternatives. I've not used it myself, but I've heard good things about it. I just wonder if it's secure at all, given the open nature of BitTorrent itself.

BitTorrent Sync is not open source or even open protocol and I personally caught them lying about their cryptography by reverse engineering it a bit. Found calls setting up 128 bit AES rather than 256 bit as they claimed in documentation. Posted it on their forum and was told that I was correct and the docs were outdated. I didn't take my RE any deeper, but trust it at your own risk. I'd recommend SyncThing over it a…

Looks like the BitTorrent Sync specs have been updated http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/tech-specs

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

#138
I dropped Dropbox due to the reports of security issues and personal files being scanned. SpiderOak seems to be the best choice at the moment though its application is not nearly as clean (due to a more complex feature set).

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

#139
I continue to use Dropbox, I think the ios app is far better than any of the others, and the other day when my wife accidentally deleted 2000 pictures from the camera uploads folder it was relatively painless to restore them.
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