[Bradford] Dropbox

[David Carpenter]

You might also be interested in what the Free Software Foundation
calls Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS, and their thoughts
on that:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

Dropbox state:
"We understand that when you entrust us with your digital life, you
expect us to keep your stuff safe"

I'm guessing that without access to the source code of the software
they run then we have to take them on trust?

Cheers
David

On 23 February 2014 12:40, David Bolton <david at nucleon.co.uk> wrote:
> I seem to remember that on the original NSA PRISM slides Dropbox was
> name-checked as being next on the target harvest list.  The slides were a
> couple of years old - so by the time they were leaked, last summer, Dropbox
> may well have been in the basket.
>
> The statement is good, but I'm actually wondering why it has taken Dropbox
> this long to respond.  What has been going on in the background, I wonder
> ;-)
>
> Dave B
>
>
> On 22/02/14 09:15, David Spencer wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm probably being extremely naive, but I was quite impressed by
>>> Dropbox's
>>> revised terms/position, circulated today.
>>>
>>> At least they are saying all the right things:
>>>
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/transparency/principles
>>
>> Interesting!  They are certainly good at plain language, and it's
>> great to see best practice stated in plain language. Thanks Paul for
>> pointing us to it.
>>
>> More than almost anyone else, Dropbox's business depends on users
>> being able to trust cloud storage -- any stampede away from them and
>> it's game over.  So this is that rare case where the best interests of
>> the business and of the consumers coincide, and here's the result,
>> which is nice.
>>
>> Having said that, they know, and we know, that the "authorities" have
>> plenty of other options, if they want some particular information
>> badly enough.  But this disincentivises mass surveillance, and that's
>> always a good thing.
>>
>> Tarra
>> -D.
>>
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