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It's not like there aren't alternatives like Google Drive or www.WeTransfer.com
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Good. I would appreciate it if someone could gather the full list of personae non grata and everything they do in their lives so I can ensure that they don't engage in any sort of business or non-profit enterprise. It would be helpful if the list were somehow color-coded, to indicate these peoples' status as pariahs.
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Hmm, it looks like the latest round of VC funding came with some strings attached.

Someone wants or needs a pretty big political connection to pay the premium fee for such a political insider.

Dropbox must need help making a profit on selling access to its users information to governments, rather than losing it unaware and uncompensated to government hackers.

Hey, Dropbox Users, if you're going to be bought and sold, at least demand your cut of the money.
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@2 Come on, the problem isn't that Rice isn't allowed to pursue a career, the problem is that privacy is a huge issue with services like DropBox and Rice's point of view is troubling:

“As a country, we are having a great national conversation and debate about exactly how to manage privacy concerns,” Rice says about her new position. “I look forward to helping Dropbox navigate it.”

If Dropbox is going to "manage" my and my data's privacy rather than just ensure my complete privacy then I'll move on to somewhere else.
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Another solution: Build your own cloud drive.

There are several free, open source, and easy solutions that you can use to build your own private "dropbox" (cloud drive/cloud server).

Google these search terms:
"Build my own...
"Create my own...
"Make your own...

...private dropbox"
...private cloud drive"
...private cloud server"

Gigaom, Lifehacker, BitTorrent and others have written articles and reviews. You can even find how-to videos on YouTube that will show you exactly what to do.

It's your data, keep it on your cloud.
6
I already switched to Google Drive, guess I'll close out my dropbox account.
7
man, being on corporate boards is the sweetest jerb ever. do they DO anything?
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@5

ownCloud.org

ownCloud is free, open source software and can be installed on a private server in your own home or be hosted on the servers of whatever hosting company that you choose.
9
To think the miles we drove around with Chevron gasoline in our cars!
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@7, Do anything? Like other than collect millions and cause controversy? Not really. It's just welfare for the already wealthy.
11
During the greatest security breach in the history of this nation, Condoleeza Rice's job was National Fucking Security Advisor. She is an utter failure and shouldn't work anywhere ever again.
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Helpless, hapless children who whine, bitch and moan to your corporate and government parents...oh, America, look what you've become.

When you get tired of shopping at the predictable "mall" of technology stores, come outside; there's a whole world waiting out here, kids.

Instead of looking to corporate parents to tell you what to do, try thinking and doing for yourself.

Remember, kids, once an idea becomes the property of a bank, regardless of the form it takes or the marketed identity it creates, the idea has become capitalist property and the relationship will become exploitive. Always, without exception.

Go outside the status quo, kids. Make some real geek friends.

Learn how to do for yourself. Learn how to do even more together with others.

Don't whine to Dropbox to make a change. Dropbox isn't owned by its users; Dropbox is owned by its bankers. They want to make a profit on their investment property by exploiting your data. Hiring Ms Rice is just one indication of how they intend to make and protect their profits. Even if you were to get them to remove her from the board, it would only be a change in window dressing. The people who wanted Ms Rice on the board will still be there and still own Dropbox.

If you want a real change, become an owner and become part of a real community where your voice actually counts. Find an open source solution and its community that you like and join them.

It's your data.
It's your privacy.
It's your choice.
It's your life.
Own it.
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Feeling a little naive here. Why does her past involvement with Chevron make her an ethical liability for Dropbox?
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@13

Hey, Grandpa, Dropbox is also in no way affiliated with Al Gore or the 2000 election.

Gore wanted to put Social Security and Medicare in a "lockbox," not a "dropbox."

No, we don't know yet whether Bush uploaded the photos he uses for his paintings or photos of his paintings or photos of himself painting in the bath to Dropbox and asked Condie to keep 'em safe for him.

No, Cheney is not hiding in an undisclosed dropbox.

Yes, Dropbox may be a "known unknown."

Pre-emptive clarification - you're welcome.
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I wish Gaddafi had convinced her to join his court.
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@13 because chevron has done some terrible shit. Particularly in the Niger delta and Ecuador.
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@16

No death squads in the U.S., but it's done some terrible things here, too, in places such as Richmond, CA.
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At least she's not a homophobe who supports antisurveillance and pro-civil liberties candidates like Brendan Eich. I expect millions of attention-needy Americans who live to be touched by the TSA and noticed by the NSA will throw their money at Drew Houston and company tout de suite.
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When I first read this I thought Condi just got a dropbox account.
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