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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Apr 2014

    Condoleezza Rice joins @dropbox board to help them ‘navigate’ and ‘manage privacy concerns’. http://boingboing.net/2014/04/09/condoleeza-rice-supporter-of.html … Time to leave Dropbox.

    11:10 PM - 9 Apr 2014
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      2. Javier Usobiaga‏ @htmlboy 9 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral if you don’t pay for a service, you’re the product. But if you pay, you might still be. @Dropbox

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Apr 2014
        Replying to @htmlboy

        @htmlboy @Dropbox Indeed, more than paying or not, whether business is VC-funded & has exit strategy (sale or IPO—latter for Dropbox)

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      2. umityalcinalp‏ @umityalcinalp 9 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Wow! What is left? AFAIK, Google Drive is not better.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Apr 2014
        Replying to @umityalcinalp

        @umityalcinalp Nope, not better. Until we have Indie Tech solutions (maybe Lima), tech-savvy solutions like @owncloud and @al3x’s Sovereign.

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      2. Michael Voorhaen‏ @mvhaen 9 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral what are your recommendations on alternatives? imo, the dropbox sync client is still one of the best out there.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Apr 2014
        Replying to @mvhaen

        @mvhaen OwnCloud, Sovereign, maybe Lima (?)… will research properly this week.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Benjamin Milde‏ @lostkobrakai 10 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @mvhaen there's also http://wuala.com 

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. seez slam‏ @soetorosux 11 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @Dropbox Oops...you hidden inner racist #WhiteSheets are showing

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 Apr 2014
        Replying to @soetorosux

        @soetorosux How dumb are you? Hint: it has nothing to do with her race. +@Dropbox

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      4. seez slam‏ @soetorosux 11 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @Dropbox Uh Huh...thats what all the "libs" say

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      1. Sun-Earther Russ‏ @Russell_Andrews 10 Apr 2014
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        @aral @adeleww @Dropbox Next: Dropbox invades Iraq on flimsy pretext.

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      1. Desiḵn‏ @desiknr 10 Apr 2014
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        @aral SpiderOak and TresorIt are zero-knowledge alternatives.

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      1. Alex Heusingfeld‏ @aheusingfeld 9 Apr 2014
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        @aral I switched to a self-hosted #OwnCloud instance a while ago. Good alternative IMHO http://owncloud.org/ 

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      2. BWheatnyc‏ @BWheatnyc 11 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @art2u2 @Dropbox Couldn't have picked a worse person. #warcriminal

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      3. Mariano‏ @art2u2 11 Apr 2014
        Replying to @BWheatnyc

        ...imagine @BWheatnyc, Condo is going to manage "privacy" concerns, that's like putting Cheney in charge of the FBI. @aral @Dropbox

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      4. BWheatnyc‏ @BWheatnyc 11 Apr 2014
        Replying to @art2u2

        @art2u2 @aral @Dropbox Very distressing thought for sure.

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      5. Mariano‏ @art2u2 11 Apr 2014
        Replying to @BWheatnyc

        ...without a doubt. @BWheatnyc @aral @Dropbox

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      1. Steve Parks‏ @steveparks 10 Apr 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @jpoesen @Dropbox by 'manage privacy concerns' they mean 'manage the concerns the NSA/MPAA has about privacy' ;)

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      1. Olaf Lewitz‏ @OlafLewitz 9 Apr 2014
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        @aral @Dropbox ouch.

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      1. aa‏ @aamanatullah 10 Apr 2014
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        @aral @Dropbox BT Sync?

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