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seanieb
1,522karma·339submissions·July 15, 2010
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Working on computer security & encryption stuff.
https://conic.al
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> "I'm looking at this report with a very skeptical eye; I moved away from Dropbox after they brought Condoleezza Rice of all people on to their board of directors to oversee privacy issu…
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That's not what this says.
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This is an anticompetitive act. Anyone using >1TB is more than likely using Netflix, Youtube, etc. Comcast are using their broadband service to push people back to using Comcast cable and digital s…
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There normal charge per GB for me is ~$0.073, their new fees charge $0.20 per GB over 1TB. Charging $10 per 50GB above 1TB is clearly punishment for anyone that doesn't subscribe to Comcast cable…
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You do a realize that if Dropbox used only official API's it would never have been a product in the first place right? Other products sucked because they used the official crappy Apple API's…
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Mozilla has zero focus. Their constantly creating new online initiatives and abandoning old ones. It's like groundhog day.
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Also, Dropbox has more people working on security today than the total number employees Dropbox had in 2011.
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Evernote is a bad datapoint for the Times to use as a starting point for some tech bubble tea leaf reading. The company was mismanaged for nearly 4 years. The founder and CEO walked or was pushed out …
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> "as one kind of comparison (not definitive by any means, just one that we have the #s to do..): box did around 300m in revenue last year (so less than DB), but Box market cap was around 1.5B…
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Don't you mean 7X? ... because math. Also, the logic of directly tying valuations of a private company to the only public direct competitor in the space is flawed (analysis don't use GOOG,MS…
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No. There have been a bunch of "leaks"/"dumps" claiming to be from Dropbox posted on pastebin for the last two years or so. Most are just rehashed from other pw dumps. Troy hu…
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May favorite quote: >If no current product exists in the market that embodies at least the most primitive form of a new product, consumers have no foundation on which to formulate their opinions.
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This isn't the case here.
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AFIK this is not implemented using the usual SSHFS/FUSE approach. This is something new. Edit: More details here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571640 …
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Yes. They've supported it since V1 AFIK. https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/docs#files-GET …
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I'm not making any judgements either way. I simply stated and the other commenter agreed that there are similarities.
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I find Flat-Earthers belief as surprising as an educated person believing in God.
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Some VPN's terminate SSL at this point. So the connection from the client to the server is encrypted, but the internal network traffic in the data center is sent unencrypted on the private networ…
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Far from half baked (theres a pun here if I look hard enough), Portugal stepped up and did the experiment already. And it worked.
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Could this be related to the hacking team dump?
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The trailer for the documentary: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/1971/ The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org…
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That failed for most of my playlists and favorites. However, it's also possible to get some playlists from your browsers local cache: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9ubz6l2uedt6m…