NSA Tries To Sneak Into Dropbox

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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2014-04-11 07:42

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/condoleezza-rice-drop-dropbox/

Condoleezza Rice, who served as the Secretary of State during the second half of the George W. Bush presidency, has joined the board of directors at Dropbox.

All that said, one of Riceâ€™s stances the Drop Dropbox campaign mentions is genuinely worrisome: Rice is a wiretapping superfan. Before she was Secretary of State, she was the National Security Advisor who endorsed the Patriot Act, and authorized NSA surveillance of the United Nations Security Council in the 2003 run-up to the Iraq War. Putting her on the Dropbox board to protect user privacy is akin to putting Edward Snowden in charge of protecting government secrets.
Osayidan wrote on 2014-04-11 11:35

As if they weren't already in there in some way or other.
Compass wrote on 2014-04-11 13:17

What's left of my freedom ;_;?
TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-04-11 16:42

Quote from Compass;1214262:
What's left of my freedom ;_;?

You are free to think you are free.
Odin wrote on 2014-04-11 16:57

Isn't this entirely irrelevant due to heartbleed?

It may have been an honest mistake, but the fact that it was unheard of for several years before being spotted really looks like foul play to me.

And given that OpenSSL is used almost everywhere, there's little doubt that even dropbox could have been impacted.
Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2014-04-15 11:19

Quote from Compass;1214262:
What's left of my freedom ;_;?

You can use Boxcryptor if you want.