How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by kalleboo on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @07:18AM (#4965836)

> I don't have any sympathy for an engineer who uses a service and relies on it without the proper testing and qualification phase. Behaving that way is most-definitely, as I said, to be kind, "pilot error".

How the heck do you effectively test a service like Dropbox fully, without making it your full-time job (IT dept). Take the other comment on this article, where someone fired up an old machine and it wiped out his files. What test would have caught that?

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Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by robomartin on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @04:12PM (#4970933)

> How the heck do you effectively test a service like Dropbox fully, without making it your full-time job (IT dept). Take the other comment on this article, where someone fired up an old machine and it wiped out his files. What test would have caught that?

PRECISELY!

And, if you can't reasonably expect to fully test it and verify it's reliability (of any service) then you DO NOT rely on it for critical data you cannot loose. Choosing to do so and then crying foul when you do loose data isn't engineering, it's, at best, wishful thinking.

Again, this does not mean that Dropbox --or any other service for that matter-- is bad. Not at all. It just means that you have to understand what you are walking into and, if you can't, or don't, then take steps to safeguard from the potential for external data loss, because you just don't know.

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