Time to ditch Dropbox
It pains me to say but it’s time to get rid of Dropbox. It’s been an amazing free service but the security breaches and flaky terms of service have me thinking this is not the place to store my files. And no, I don’t have anything cool or top secret but that doesn’t mean I want some damn fool being able to access my account without my knowledge. Or have Dropbox turn over the contents for no apparent reason. I also think this shows why Cloud computing and storing things in the Cloud is problematic and quite frankly dangerous. Dropbox made it easy to get files onto my iPad and to make files and information I had at work available to me at home. It’s a very nice system but when the Gatekeepers are asleep at the wheel what are you gaining? One small mistake and the information for millions of users is just sitting out there waiting for anyone […]
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