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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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1037 points 8bitben | 1 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Sir_Cmpwn ◴[09 Sep 16 16:27 UTC] No.12463720[source]▶
Great article, but poor conclusion. He finds that Dropbox is untrustworthy, a finding that likely surprises no one, and reaches for iCloud as the solution. Why move into another walled garden driven by corporate interests? OwnCloud or a similar self hosted solution would be better. I just use NFS and a dead simple storage server to make ~/shared available on all of my machines.
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woah ◴[09 Sep 16 16:36 UTC] No.12463798[source]▶
If you're going to use a Mac, you're trusting Apple already. How does using iCloud make you trust them more?
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Sir_Cmpwn ◴[09 Sep 16 16:41 UTC] No.12463841[source]▶
I wouldn't use a Mac, either :)
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Myrth ◴[09 Sep 16 16:47 UTC] No.12463908[source]▶
And if you're using Ubuntu, you're trusting package managers, and if you're using Gentoo, you're trusting original developers (how often do you audit source code?)
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1. kinkdr ◴[09 Sep 16 20:37 UTC] No.12465868{4}[source]▶
That's exactly right and what people complain about. That Dropbox betrayed the trust they(users) were giving to them(Dropbox).

I don't necessarily agree with them, but that's the sentiment here.

Edit: by the way, regarding open source projects, it doesn't matter if you don't look at the code personally. Somebody else does, and if there is problem with it, it becomes a huge public scandal sooner or later.