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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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new299 ◴[] No.12463925[source]
Dropbox circumventing security restrictions (albeit for legit reasons) is particularly worrying because they have board members who support warrentless surveillance.

In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/). Personally, with a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data, and I wont be using their service.

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aRationalMoose ◴[] No.12464322[source]
Got a good alt suggestion?
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1. 794CD01 ◴[] No.12464353[source]
Spideroak, if your reason for switching is privacy.
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2. simias ◴[] No.12465601[source]
I use (and pay for) Spideroak pretty much for that reason but given that their client is not open source I kinda feel like it's just homeopathic security. They could backdoor my client and I wouldn't know better.

So I definitely wouldn't store very sensitive stuff on SpiderOak either but I guess it's slightly better than dropbox.