How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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.

If you're going to use a Mac, you're trusting Apple already. How does using iCloud make you trust them more?

Because Apple doesn't have a mechanism to access files on your Mac, while they do have a mechanism to access files on iCloud. This means someone guessing your security questions, or somebody with a warrant, or somebody abusing their access rights can get to your files.

They do provide the OS, so they implicitly have access to all your files at a level that dropbox would have a hard time achieving.

> so they implicitly have access to all your files

If you can demonstrate how Apple has access to my files on an OS X installation with no iCloud configured, I will round up a massive bounty.