Dropbox's Condoleezza Rice advocating for warrantless NSA surveillance

104 点作者 pr0zac大约 11 年前

17 条评论

I deleted my account about a week ago. Some things, like google (mail, drive etc) are harder to drop but with so many cloud storage applications out there this was an easy choice.appointing someone who advocates(or at least once did) warantless surveillance is certainly less overt than more direct cooperation and there are other organizations more strongly implicated in NSA surveillance. I don't feel like my cancellation will make a lick of difference nor do I feel like my citizen vigilance quota is filled up for the year. However it's one small thing I can do in under a minute.

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robg大约 11 年前

This seems like the most straight forward argument, and far more germane to Rice's role at Dropbox as a continuation of her role as National Security Adviser. There she was expected to provide independent advice to the President. Now she's expected to provide independent advice to the CEO and Board. The worry is she either got rolled by more strident hawks in the Bush Administration or went along willingly because she believed the arguments. Neither explanation encourages much faith in her role as an independent director at a company with lots of my data.

tptacek大约 11 年前

According to 'dang, the original "drop Dropbox" story was the most-flagged submission in the entire HN database, by a factor of 3. This story is a mere subsidiary of that one. It's worth flagging as well. There are better places to advocate against Dropbox (which is banned for other reasons at my company) than on HN.

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a3n大约 11 年前

I dropped them a couple days ago. Said "Rice." in the reason why box.

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pavel_lishin大约 11 年前

To be fair, this was almost a decade ago. Has she mentioned what her stance on this is today?

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forgottenpass大约 11 年前

It'd be sad if another tech company board member got run out of town. But I'll say that if dropbox didn't expect this reaction, they're foolish. They hired Rice for her political ties, so I'm slightly less sympathetic if the public judges her for her political ties.

thyroxo大约 11 年前

This seems a little crazy. Just because someone who has different political views than me is on the board of a company whose product I use, doesn't mean I must support their political views. By that logic, I can never use a product made by a company who has a board member who doesn't have the same views as me.And to the point that her political views will somehow cloud security at Dropbox: they probably brought her on to advise on how to deal with security requests by the government.In any case, the idea that adding Rice to the board will somehow make Dropbox excitedly comply with all governments surveillance is preposterous.

gtCameron大约 11 年前

Original title of this submission "Dropbox's Condoleezza Rice advocating for warrantless NSA surveillance" is more than a little dishonest.The article is talking about statements she made on TV in 2005. That is bad enough, I don't understand why you feel the need to make it seem like she is going to the White House today in a Dropbox t-shirt advocating for NSA surveillance.

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mrjatx大约 11 年前

I don't understand this decision. Dropbox in February (2014) was finally allowed use back in China, so my understanding is they're going hard for that market of over a billion people.I wouldn't be surprised if China blocked them again due to this appointment.

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joshuak大约 11 年前

I'm no fan of warrantless surveillance, but this is a bit too much sensationalist thinking for hacker news no? The NSAs ability to look at your dropbox files has not been affected one way or the other by this appointment I'm sure. If you catch my drift.To me the bigger issue for Dropbox is that it's a feature not a platform, which explains why they're having so much trouble entering new markets.added: [wow, some pretty aggressive downvoting going on there, must have touched a nerve.]

swombat大约 11 年前

I have 15 people on Dropbox for Business, so it's not so straightforward to migrate off, but it'll be done before our renewal deadline. Mostly because of this. The $2.5k/y was just an annoyance, but this is a matter of principles now.We're currently evaluating BitTorrentSync and Owncloud. Any opinions about their relative merits for a 15-strong team that's half distributed, half local, and using this as a "shared drive" of sorts, are welcome!

bane大约 11 年前

Somehow I think this would be more effective if it was hosted off of people's dropbox accounts. Use their bandwidth and resources to show disapproval.

alfl23大约 11 年前

Goodbye Dropbox.

BuckRogers大约 11 年前

First, Eich was taken down by crusading morons and now this? I don't agree with Eich's former donation (see how stupid that sounds when actually stated?), and I'm not a fan of Ms. Rice (oh noes, he's not a fan...) but no thanks, I'm passing on your political hate train.

wdr1大约 11 年前

Honestly, I'm getting numb to the political witch hunts.

RighteousFervor大约 11 年前

I already dropped Dropbox. It's a done deal. I moved everything over to Yandex.

terrble大约 11 年前

Looks like a lot of privileged white males having trouble with a strong black woman.

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