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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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1037 points 8bitben | 3 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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new299 ◴[09 Sep 16 16:49 UTC] 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 ◴[09 Sep 16 17:29 UTC] No.12464322[source]▶
Got a good alt suggestion?
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1. arximboldi ◴[09 Sep 16 23:24 UTC] No.12466745[source]▶
I use Syncthing: https://syncthing.net/

Totally distributed, works like magic. Being distributed means you do have to blindly trust a third party, but also that don't have to worry about $ per megabite. For example, one of the machines I have in my Syncthing network is a Raspberry Pi with a 3TB drive getting a backup of my laptop $HOME and important stuff from other machines all the time.

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2. rocky1138 ◴[10 Sep 16 02:02 UTC] No.12467285[source]▶
Is it a Pi 1? I tried for months to get it to work with it, but even overclocked, it was still too damn slow to function.

I love Syncthing, though, but I had to take the Pi out of the pool.

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3. arximboldi ◴[10 Sep 16 12:11 UTC] No.12468827[source]▶
Yeah, admittedly I also tried with a Pi 1 but it was too slow, now I have a Pi 3 for that.