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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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1037 points 8bitben | 2 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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BinaryIdiot ◴[09 Sep 16 17:12 UTC] No.12464160[source]▶
Honestly they're pretty much the most expensive out of all of the storage solutions. Other than versioning they have less features than their competition as well. If they were born today I can't imagine they would have gone much of anywhere. Not sure how they're doing financially today but it seems each product they create flops.

So even outside of this surveillance stuff I don't get the point in using them.

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bad_user ◴[09 Sep 16 17:29 UTC] No.12464315[source]▶
Out of the mainstream ones, they are the only ones supporting Linux.
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morganvachon ◴[09 Sep 16 21:13 UTC] No.12466095{3}[source]▶
How so? Seafile and SpiderOak both thrive on their excellent Linux support, and Mega also supports Linux with an official client. They are, if not in the top five, at least in the top ten of popular consumer cloud storage solutions.
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1. bad_user ◴[10 Sep 16 04:37 UTC] No.12467709{4}[source]▶
With all due respect but this is the first time I've heard of Seafile, probably because Seafile isn't for consumers [1], SpiderOak is primarily a backup solution that learned to do sync, with its client implementations being weird, ugly and featureless and while I never tried Mega, I really don't think anybody sane can trust Kim Dotcom's Mega with any important files.

As anecdote I have zero acquaintances using any of these. Mainstream are Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.com, Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud and Amazon Drive. That's already Top 6 and combined they probably cover more than 98% of marketshare.

[1] https://www.seafile.com/en/product/private_server/

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2. morganvachon ◴[10 Sep 16 12:22 UTC] No.12468861[source]▶
> With all due respect but this is the first time I've heard of...

and

> As anecdote I have zero acquaintances using any of these.

Your experience is not the same as everyone else's. Do a Google search for "cloud storage" and you'll see all the ones I mentioned coming up in lists in the first page of results. If that's not "in the top 10", I'd love to know your definition. Oh, right, you already gave it: "Well I've never heard of it!"