ZeroDamage July 5, 2011 Share ZeroDamage Member July 5, 2011 (edited) Remove any personal identifying items you have stored on Dropbox if you use them. They keep experiencing security breaches and now their TOS says that they have copyright of whatever is on their service. Use encryption if you continue to use them for anything more than storing funny gifs like this. Edited July 5, 2011 by ZeroDamage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lousiest July 5, 2011 Share lousiest Member July 5, 2011 oh boy... thanks for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters July 5, 2011 Share stutters GC Alumni July 5, 2011 unfortunately, this isn't the standard FUD we've all come to love zd for. ( this post dissects it pretty well (bonus follow up post), or you could read the new dropbox tos (and supporting dropbox blog post). unfortunately, i haven't found a good alternative. one of my buddies pointed me at sparkleshare, but that's not for the technically faint of heart. box.net is priced for enterprise, and truecrypt takes away the automated on-the-fly updating i fell in love with dropbox over. with truecrypt, you either have to upload the entire encrypted share, or you have to break it into smaller chunks. in either case, that's not (easily) automated. oh well. i'm sure someone somewhere is scrambling to ship code and fill this new opportunity. that, or dropbox will be announcing a new platinum tier that encrypts your data and you retain ownership of (a la google premium docs). until then, goodbye, dropbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lousiest July 5, 2011 Share lousiest Member July 5, 2011 yea, bummer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shazz July 6, 2011 Share Shazz Member July 6, 2011 This really is annoying. I use dropbox for my docs. Anyone familiar with SugarSync? https://www.sugarsync.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crasx July 6, 2011 Share crasx GC Alumni July 6, 2011 I have sugarsync but havent used it at all. I've been using dropbox... I think it was because of the autosync but I don't really remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters July 7, 2011 Share stutters GC Alumni July 7, 2011 dropbox took yet another stab at their TOS. looks like the ownership thing is nipped, but i'm still not sure about the whole accessing your files thing. hats off to them for fighting to get this fixed. http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=867 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crasx July 7, 2011 Share crasx GC Alumni July 7, 2011 I would still be weary about storing sensitive information in the cloud. I mainly use it for homework so I can easily work on it between my laptop and desktop as well as work stuff. One solution could be to put an encrypted file container in the dropbox using something like truecrypt, but then everytime you updated a file the whole container would need to re-upload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clueless July 8, 2011 Share Clueless GC Alumni July 8, 2011 It seems your stuff is now safe...but what about my stuff, or his stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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