How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by wlkr on Saturday September 10, 2016 @01:00AM (#12467780)

I switched from Dropbox to Mega a few years ago and they now have mobile apps, sync clients for multiple operating systems and decent browser extensions in addition to a more generous storage allowance. There is also the added benefit of encryption. So far I remain impressed with their service.

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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by PhantomGremlin on Saturday September 10, 2016 @01:52AM (#12467895)

I switched from Dropbox to Mega

Really?

FWIW Kim Dotcom, the founder of Mega, has distanced himself from it, saying the company had "suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is wanted in China for fraud"[1]

So yeah, don't trust Dropbox. Instead trust some shady Chinese characters. Can you name one of them? In comparison, note that Ben Newhouse, a Dropbox employee, is actually posting in this discussion.

There is also the added benefit of encryption

Without full source code to said encryption, all you have to go on is "trust us".

Forced to choose between the two, I know who I'd trust, and it wouldn't be Mega. YMMV.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_(service)

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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by kuschku on Saturday September 10, 2016 @02:51AM (#12468028)

Luckily, there's third party clients that are open source for Mega.

And they're actually usable.

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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by Jean-Philipe on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:53AM (#12480154)

> Instead trust some shady Chinese characters.

What does Chinese have to do with this?

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