Here’s a great idea: spend 5 years building an awesome service where people upload their private documents and trust that you’ll handle them safely. After you’ve done that, undo everything you worked for in one go by hiring one of the people who was part of the team behind the biggest illegal data mining and analysis scandals in human history as a board member.
Seriously? Like, nobody at Dropbox stopped for a second and thought: “hmm, are we sure we’re sending the right message, what with the still-in-the-news revelations of the illegal USA surveillance and all?”
People who know me know I love Dropbox. I blogged about it here back in 2009. I’ve been a paying member for years. I’ve got two accounts. Well, had. I’ve cancelled them both and switched to BitTorrent Sync since this news broke.
What’s BitTorrent Sync? Think free Dropbox without the lady-in-the-middle. Here’s an easy-to-follow guide on how to migrate.
