One thinks you could have chosen someone a bit less… controversial.

OK. Good luck with that. Still dropping you. It’s the only way to be sure

Actions speak louder than words. I’ll be cancelling by subscription.

She has a long history of a complete lack of concern for the privacy rights of citizens. She is a very accomplished person, I admire many things about her. She could serve well on the boards of many companies, but her being on the board of a company that should be as concerned about the rights of its customers as Dropbox should be, makes no sense.

Un-f*cking-believable.

You are quite obviously the federal governments 2 bit girl, enjoy it you wont have me anymore.

Literally no one cares how you spin this, your customers are dropping like flies.

I am quite disappointed in Dropbox. Guess it is time to start looking for alternatives.

Okay, sure, but she’s a war criminal. You’re deflecting.

To be honest, even if you drop her now I’m still not using your service any more. The fact that you appointed her to your board in the first place is enough to tell me where your morals are, and enough for me to turn my back on your service.

Google Drive is awesome, guys: http://googledrive.blogspot.ca/2014/03/save-more-with-google-drive.html

You drop rice and I’ll come back.

No idea wtf is going on

This is just PR void. Your actions still speak otherwise: you hired Condoleezza Rice, which is a brand killer.

Happy you’ve chosen Dr Rice! Stand your ground. Good to see company standing on principle.

The prog hypocrisy is simple astounding. If she’d been a liberal and the cons were demanding her removal, the progs would be crapping in their pants and setting fire to cars in the streets. Double standard if ever I saw one. Disgusting.
Good job, DropBox. Stand up to these racist and sexist creeps who hide behind pathetic excuses and totally invalid claims to be holding the high moral ground. Revolting. Thank God I’m not American.

I have been a Dropbox subscriber for as long as I can remember. Every month I pay $9.99 for the service.

Hiring Dr. Rice’s firm to help you to deal with government regulations overseas, and privacy issues was questionable.

Allowing Dr. Rice to join the board of your corporation is something I don’t understand. There was no one else interested or qualified?

Dr. Rice authorized warrantless wiretaps on our allies, and the United Nations. She was part of a regime that sent the USA to war over false pretenses.

I simply cannot continue to give Dropbox my money, and expect I will have a new solution for my needs by the end of the month.

and you surely are one. Get informed before you insult, moron.

Ever heard of Google Drive? Less than $2 a month for 100GB.

Yep. Moron above. I concur.
(can’t remember the last time I set fire to any cars, btw.)

Well said, sir.

Google Drive is less than $2 a month for 100GB.

Even though your service costs more than competing services, I was willing to stay because I really loved the work you all did. But I can’t in good conscious support a company that would hire a spy advocate and war criminal. I’ll be taking my business to Google Drive.

This is a serious concern for me. Actions speak louder than words and her actions spied on many words that should have been private… No good!

I completely support this. Ms. Rice is highly qualified, and I choose to stand with Dropbox. This politically-based shaming is absolutely appalling.

And since the Obama regime has been massively more guilty of warrantless invasion of privacy, this politically based witch-hunt is disingenuous to say the least. If DropBox had named, say, Hillary on the board, everyone would be just peachy with that. The American prog double standards and racism just disgust me.

“Honored” to have her join your board? You should be ashamed. You should have learned from what happened to the Mozilla foundation last week — the people you hire reflects your corporate values. Any affiliation with Condoleezza Rice is an affirmation of every bit of corruption and invasion of personal privacy that transpired under the Bush administration (not that I’m defending its continuation under the current one).

This is possibly the worst decision ever. Your purpose as a company is to protect our data on the cloud and you go and hire Condoleeza Rice!? What next, George Bush Junior as a peace ambassador!?

I have used Dropbox for years but o have already moved my data to Google Drive and will be closing down my account.

Only… it’s not politically based. It’s based on an individuals actions. Deflection only works when there aren’t facts to back it up.

Dazla agreeing with Dazla? How appropriate for someone who openly admits to being clueless. Perhaps you forgot to switch accounts? You Dazzle me!

LOLOLOL.

Yeah totally, why can’t people just be judged purely on what they can do to increase the profits of a company rather than the atrocities they committed before hand, right? I mean, when are people gonna get over all the things Hitler did and judge his art independently of that?

And the Obama administration’s massive and totally provable invasion of privacy is not a fact, Crueber? Hello?

Nope, not good enough. I cancelled my subscription today.

Oh no. That’s a fact. But yet again, it’s a deflection. Obama’s Regime is not at question.

“It takes years to win a customer. And only a second to loose one”.

Racists simply disgust me.

I disagree profoundly with Dr. Rice on many issues, but I won’t be dropping DropBox unless there’s a sound *technical* reason to do so. Appointing Dr. Rice to the board isn’t a sound technical reason. Calling someone who disagrees with you a “war criminal” is a fascist tactic. I applaud DropBox for sticking with their choice, and hope they will continue to do so.

You, dazzle, should be ashamed for your racism. Seriously disgusting.

People who’s political bias runs as high as their emotions will make it a point to get angry about anything.

Do your thing Dropbox. Level heads don’t care who’s on your board.

Your are happy to have Dr. Rice – i am happy to have to change all private an Business Accounts to Google!

You seriously believe, sir, that 98% of the hostility isn’t because Dr. Rice is a Republican and served on Bush’s staff? Surely you cannot be that naive.

Hey, don’t diss Hitler’s art!!

Well said, Drew. Congratulations on your success.

Every once in a while, a decision comes along that is so monumentally stupid that it defies belief. I deleted my account this morning and uninstalled all Dropbox apps. Company to follow.

Exactly. One would think the Mozilla situation would still be fresh enough in peoples minds to help inform their actions…

I don’t love google but at least they don’t have Neocons on their board. See ya.

then please spare us your racist bloviations.

That’s awesome… Please leaving dropbox for this. Hey Dropbox since they wont be needing it can we have their storage?!?! ;)

hell yeah!

Star-struck?

Every dead Iraqi kid is honored you had her join the board too. Fuck you and I’m done with the service.

Baseless projection. Nothing said in Scott Hutton’s comment even comes close to racism you fucking idiot.

Hang on … if electricity comes from electrons … doesn’t morality come from ghanburighan?

You slimy progs do so love your disgusting double standards.

Whats next Dropbox? You want to hire peewee herman to screen movies?

So you hired Rice… was Satan himself too busy and couldn’t join the board so you picked the next best thing?

When you announced her appointment, I immediately uninstalled your spyware and PRISM-ware crap. Oh yes, Dropbox is part of PRISM.

I’ve remained your customer during all the lies and security breaches but this was too much.

So long Dropbox! I’ve dropped you!

I’m going to just assume you’re a troll now because you keep calling people’s comments racist regardless of what they say, when there isn’t even a hint of racism at all. Throwing the “racist” card out too often is dangerous, it makes people take the topic less seriously. It’s like the phrase “if everything is bold, then nothing is” – so please just shut the fuck up.

Assume whatever bullshit you like, Davey boy.

Please I want to ask something.
If I delete my Dropbox account does the storage stay on their cloud?
Thanks

More has been done to damage our rights since Obama took office but nobody would have raised an eyebrow if someone from his administration had been appointed. Rice is qualified. Some people just can’t let go of their GW Bush hate.

You keep shouting racist and sexist at everyone who is leaving over Condoleeza Rice’s appointment. Now you’re saying it’s because she’s Republican. I guess Republican is now a race and a sex.

Since you contradict yourself with every second statement you publish, ditsy, you are clearly a troll. enjoy this tidbit then.

Well at least they didn’t hire Dick Cheney …

As long as Dropbox continues to honor their principles, I have no problems with Dr. Rice becoming a member of the board.

I can’t express how tired I am of the “progressives” smearing people who don’t agree with their talking

Cut your losses…she’s not worth it.

If she had any honor, she would’ve refused the offer and stepped down already

The thing is, yesterday you were saying she was joining the board to advise on international expansion and privacy. Today, her experience and insight is just in international markets…
When a politician says “As a country, we are having a great national conversation and debate
about exactly how to manage privacy concerns, I look forward to helping Dropbox navigate it.” and the CEO changes his mind about what 1/4 of the board is there to do from one day to the next, I’m not interested in being part of it.
It’s not about left vs right.If you’d put James Clapper on your board, I’d feel the same and he was appointed by Obama.

This has nothing to do with your “commitment” to my “rights and privacy.” It has everything to do with you not only electing Rice but continuing to be “honored” by her election. How can you be in such support of rights and privacy when you have someone who was instrumental in starting the Iraq war and the torture program? It boggles the mind that she would offer anything to a company dedicated to “rights and privacy” and a cloud company.

I have since left Dropbox and have found a great alternative. Should she leave the board sometime in the future, I will not be returning. This company is now tainted with death and destruction, and I will no longer be a loyal supporter.

Really glad that Dropbox are still honored to have Dr. Rice on board. The best thing the management of Dropbox can do now is to proceed with stupid decision #2: continue to walk over a cliff.

While I agree that’s probably true for many, I don’t know if it’s true for all. I don’t think very many people at all are happy with Obama’s administration. He’s not conservative enough for the right and he’s too conservative for the left…he dances in the middle, and his hands aren’t blood-free either. I for one would stop any service that appoints him to the board once he leaves office, but I admit I might be in a minority there.

Not theirs, just the NSA’s. Dropbox stores your stuff on Amazon S3 and that is probably already compromised.
Leaving Dropbox over this is a largely symbolic gesture, but it’s the only one that Dropbox will notice.

US citizens are not the only people who are upset by the US government sucking up everyone’s data. Current and potential international customers aren’t going to like Dr. Rice’s record on mass surveillance either. The international community’s new skepticism in the trustworthiness of US-based web companies, after the repeated NSA headlines, makes your international expansion argument moot and your judgement very questionable.

You can promise your principles and values haven’t changed, but it means nothing when the NSA scandals consist of secret programs in which technology companies were alleged to be complicit and/or incompetent.

The bottom line is that no amount of international market experience and insight is worth the perceived risk to our private data. Perception and trust are key to this situation. And you have misjudged the public with respect to both.

I’m totally with you. This new McCarthyism is rally unseemly and irrational in a business context.

Half of you #idiots use the free service anyway … go find something else to complain about

Is it a profound surprise to you that some Dropbox users from international markets do not see Dr. Rice as a supporter of personal privacy?

If you were a true conservative, you should be disgusted with what she was involved with in office more than people who label themselves progressives. Stop towing the party line – think for yourself.

Thank you :)

Those who approve of the Rice appointment should welcome the departure of customers who don’t.

Good point. Thanks.

In a world where the Market has become the proxy of most things political, the average US citizen doesn’t have many options to exercise influence — except in the choice to use or not use a service or product. How do you think the users of Dropbox inform themselves? Probably not NewsCorp.

I’m done using Dropbox, and going forward my company will migrate elsewhere.

blame odumba … odumba has turned this country in to trash

Yeah, manufacturing false evidence and sending in our troops to die for Neocon causes is politics. Go tell that to the mothers and fathers of those who died in combat fighting for lies that Dr Rice manufactured.

Especially people living outside the US are extremely sensitive about NSA / PRISM and all the other spying. Why should we, living in other countries, ever be spied by US secret services !. Who gives them these rights?
And now you, a company hosting our most private and sensitive data, get Ms. Rice on your board, a person deeply involved with all the NSA and PRISM stuff?
Maybe we are foreigners.
But we are not fools.
I am out, and so are many colleagues here in Europe.
You cannot imagine the shitstorm building up over here, you will loose whole Europe like this.
Good luck looking for new clients abroad!

Says the dumbass who doesn’t know what a racist or a sexist is. You are literally the only moron here going on about race or sex.

you know you dont pay… stop lying

What principles? Dropbox management outright lied about their security for years! You can call those principles, I’ll call it deception.

Love the service, hate your choices. Leaving for Google Drive.

thats dumb google is huge on sharing info with the gov

He’s too busy running Hell.

sharing info with the government DOES NOT equal playing your part in starting wars with sovereign nations

I’ll also be taking my ten a month to Google Drive, due to this decision.

Nice adding a mass murderer to your board. Must need the govt business. Will see about closing my account….

That’s an interesting way of thinking about it…

oh you mean like syria?

Yup, confirmed, just a troll.

The appointment of a former White House administrator under George W. Bush led to policies that infringed on personal liberties and privacy of the American people using illegal surveillance tactics and an unjustified war in Iraq & Afghanistan costing hundreds of thousands of lives. It doesn’t matter what kind of skill set and experience Ms. Rice has with the international market to help an internet company expand its presence. Her “political record” that most Americans did not support during the Bush Administration should have been the “red flag” in not appointing her. I strongly suggest you repeal her appointment. I can’t speak on behalf of other members of dropbox, but I will cancel my membership as soon as possible because of the recent decision.

New security bug : please, upgrade to dropbox 1.0.1g

Is that like where you have to cancel each month, or do you cancel by the year? ;)

Dear Drew,

So sad. Doubling-down on a mistake only makes it worse: “We’re honored to have Dr. Rice join our board”. Really? OK. So you aren’t walking this one back. You were probably prodded by some board member to make this very bad decision. Now you own it. Just remember, your board members are not your friends – they have their own agendas and one of the agendas is moving Silicon Valley to the right.

BTW, I’m like so many other people who signed up for your service over four years ago. We have evangelized DropBox to all our friends, partners and colleagues. We use it in our business daily. But now I’m moving off. If you cannot see how utterly tone-deaf this move is then I cannot trust you to “do the right thing.” You have gone from awesome to awful in one day.

I used to have 80 GB of data on dropbox. Now I have 10 GB of shared data on DropBox. Over the next few months, before my subscription expires, I will move to a different sharing experience for our business.

(BTW, thanks for making it easy to migrate my data. I just dragged my DropBox folder into Google Drive and voila! Migration done. At 1/5 the price.)

Yes, you make an a great product but now you have real competition: Google Drive, One Drive, Box, BT Sync. I’m checking them all out and I’ll be making recommendations to my friends, colleagues, etc.

Signed,
No Longer A Fan

Dropbox has too many users to listen to people with no jobs using free accounts anyway

Sure, because I’m fairly certain that some day Dropbox is just going to drop you a line and be all like, “Hey, just so you know, that worst case scenario that you were worried about? Yeah, we’re doing that now.”

haha google will be happy to send your data directly to the NSA

Wonder if this addition to the Board of Directors is within a week of an announcement of new venture capital funding.

Yah, but she won’t increase profits as her mere presence is leading to them losing a lot of customers.

Why is it shameful? Are corporate landscapes and political landscapes really so much different? Does a lack of morality in one confer morality in another?

Is it wrong for a person to protest a corporate group for the political actions of someone on their payroll? If so, why is that? Are their past problems wiped clean when they are given a homogeneous corporate identity ?

Not all of us forget the past, and personally I believe the realm of politics to be perfectly suited for ‘corporate practice’, and vice versa.

She’s a doctor who worked for her degree. I may dislike her and her actions, but allow her the respect she earned through her studies. It’s Dr. Rice.

This guy must work for Rice or is some neocon nutjob.

How about calling her a war criminal because she is a war criminal?

The Bush administration is the worst in our history for invasion of privacy, infringement of personal liberties, and failure to monitor national security in a competent fashion. You should take Conde Rice off your board. I will look for another provider for my files if you do not.

“and defend their rights?” That pretty crosses the line from PR to Orwellian with this appointment.

Is Google or Dropbox somehow responsible for Syria, or is that outside the scope of this conversation like I somehow believe it to be?

Individuals choosing to shame a business for their actions is exactly how free market capitalism works.

Nope the Obama Admin is the absolute worst

I’m switching to the distributed & opensource git-annex assist for my file syncing needs: https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/‎

i’d rather a company send my data around the world spying on me than support a person who’d rather send bombs around the globe in a vain effort to grab resources and power in areas with lesser military strength.

Talk all you want but your actions show your real values. I’m switching to other storage technologies. Dropbox has been a great setup for me for years. I’ve used paid storage and free storage over that time, it was a godsend when I was travelling to keep my photos backed up and to share them with family.
But there’s other providers that work just as well as Dropbox (and offer more competitive pricing nowadays anyways).
This is unforgivable, and shows that all your past talk about privacy and protection of our rights was just that, talk.

To all the knuckleheads bitching and complaining, please leave. You only used the free service anyway so no loss. Condi is more than qualified.

Was G. Gordon Liddy busy? He’s got a lot of experience at sidestepping the Constitution too.

Fair point.

I am a paying customer, but will leave before my renewal.

are google and dropbox responsible for wars? or is that or is that outside the scope of this conversation like I somehow believe it to be?

dont lie … you dont pay .. you know you sit firm at 2gb

No matter what you claim because it’s convenient, putting one of the architects of the torture and surveillance state on your board speaks louder than words. How can anyone possibly believe you care about privacy when you would legitimize such a legacy? I hoped you would do the right thing, but I’ll have to end all use of Dropbox and encourage everyone else to do so as well.

The fact that you even have to write this blog post should tell you something.

This is the free market, we don’t agree with Dropbox’s decision, so we won’t use their business.

Understanding or not, I don’t care. This is still an incredibly tonedeaf move that will lose you tens of thousands of users.

No matter how much of an asset she may be, she’s such a liability that it’s probably not worth it.

I was unaware of this as an option. Very interesting. Not very use friendly, but good to know about!

I’m sure Dr. Rice is very well loved internationally:)
WHAT ARE YOU GUYS THINKING?

I’ve got one word for you:

OwnCloud

http://owncloud.org/

SeaFile is better. ownCloud has issues.

“Nobody on our board, at least, and I don’t think the prior board, could envision users leaving Dropbox for an alternative on such a massive scale.”

Rice’s appointment was a stupid decision unless you are going to introduce dropbox to the world the way we introduce democracy,

Do you have any idea how many conservatives and libertarians are disgusted with the surveillance state that Rice helped bring about (and yes, the Obama administration is just as guilty)?
This isn’t just liberals complaining about this.

Bullshit. I stopped my paid plan… whatever you **say** won’t change that.
You deserve no trust, being proud of hiring such a professional liar.

The best way to funnel money and power to people is to have them sit on critical boards. I give the conservatives credit for managing and wielding power. They are relentless and they never give ground. They have never apologized for warrentless wiretaps, torture, the NSA or anything else. In fact, quite the opposite, they wear it like a badge of honor. They are the best at being the worst.

I wasn’t aware of SeaFile. Thanks for the pointer.

What issues do you see with OwnCloud? I’ve heard mostly good things about it, but you’ve got me curious…

When you’re explaining you’re losing

Dropbox, you need to look at the people DEFENDING you in this comments section right here. The tone they’re taking, the language they’re using.
Those are the people representing your brand across the internet now.
When people see things related to Dropbox on the net now, the only positive feedback they’re going to see about the company is stuff like “I STAND WITH DROPBOX!! STUPID LIBTARDS!! BLAH BLAH OBAMA OBAMA!”

That is a disaster for your PR. That’s just as bad as the calm, reasoned complaints about Rice’s appointment from people all over the political spectrum.

Goodbye

Then you folks dropping their service don’t have an issue with the #DropMozilla effort, right? Yeah, I thought so.

Drop Dr. Rice. Put her on the shelf. She is a bad person.

What a fool. Please don’t breed.

Can you really be so dense that you don’t realize that you’re just picking a random insult and firing it, hoping it will stick? You like the appointment of her. We get it. But because others have (legitimate) issues with her appointment (having nothing to do with racism, sexism or politicism, or any other -ism), all of your random insults are doing is revealing your ignorance. You are, in fact, the troll. Not others, as you seem to believe.

(and yes, I am now done feeding the troll, sorry everyone else)

Your argument – no flaws. 10 points.

The major problems:

* no incremental sync.

* more than just file hosting. you can run calendar, rss, files, … on ownCloud – one hack kills your whole infrastructure, not just a part.

* code quality is said to be rather bad (Kris Köhntopp blogged a bit about it on G+).

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I have to question the election of Rice to the board. There has to be someone who is just as qualified and who has experience with the “international markets and the dynamics that define them.” If I was a shareholder, it’ll be at this time that I would be consulting my attorney because there has to be someone out there who has her experience and is, you know, not a war criminal.

Goodbye. I deleted most of my data and canceled my subscription. Switching to btsync.

You do indeed seem to think that the vast majority of the hostility towards Dr. Rice is genuinely motivated by objections to her personal work experience, as you also seem to think that the same vast majority of the hostility is not motivated by politics and racism. You are either very naive (albeit sincere) or an idiot. I haven’t the time or patience to try to discover which. Whatever.

Great job, I think you files will be much more safer with Google Drive *LOL*.
Come on, think !

Yeah, some folks might skip all this political warfare (will there ever be peace?) and get down to the brass tacks of price, mebbe. Or mebbe not. Matter of taste, I reckon: that’s the bottom line.

You added precisely nothing to the conversation. So,
‘Yup, confirmed. Just a idiot prog troll’

Yeah, as if progs would have the minimal courage it would take to accept their racism and say the real reasons out loud? Country full of disgusting racism morons. Good damn riddance.

Deleted my account as well. Good riddance.

EXACTLY!

No amount of intelligence, international experience, or business expertise (all of which Dr. Rice no doubt has plenty of) can possibly outweigh the implicit message this sends to your customers about the extent to which you value privacy. Condoleezza Rice has played a significant role in one of the most serious violations of the human right to privacy in recent history. This appointment demonstrates a severe lack of concern for the expectations of individuals and companies who use your service – particularly those outside the United States. The only worse people I could think of to bring on to your board would be Keith Alexander or James Clapper.

As a developer who has long supported Dropbox in the mobile applications I develop, I’m tremendously disappointed both in your response to this issue and the degree to which you fail to see why so many people are concerned. While time will ultimately tell what impact this has on Dropbox as a business, my prediction is that this is something that will harm, not help. It’s my view that all of us in the technology industry should be standing up and fighting for the privacy rights of our customers, and it’s sad to see Dropbox not showing leadership in this area.

“Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten”

That may be temporary while I figure out what to do next but last time I checked no one from Google’s Board was a supporter of PRISM, the Patriot Act or any other huge intrusions on civil liberties. I acted quickly to send a clear message to DropBox that “decisions have consequences”.

Do you have any idea how much people like you with responses like this are damaging Dropbox’s brand?
Your’e not helping the company.

If nothing is more important to you than keeping our info safe and secure – and you expect me to honestly believe that – then kick Dr. Rice from your board. She has proven to me that she can not be trusted with privacy concerns and as long as she is involved, that distrust she has earned applies to dropbox as a whole. I’m moving my data elsewhere.

Couldn’t agree more. This is lazy blog post about such an appointment is also shockingly bad branding. I thought you guys were world class?

And the racists are? Your naivete becomes you.

Dropbox will let Dr. Rice go. That’s a foregone conclusion. The bigots will win again, as they did with Mozilla. And life goes on and the USA slowly sinks to the slime on the bottom of the pond.

So be it. Frankly don’t give a shit anymore what you guys do with yourselves. Just wish that precious Nobel Laureate of yours would hurry up a bit so the rest of the world can get on with their lives. Anyone with a shred of dignity and the means would renounce US citizenship and go look for someplace where tolerance actually means you tolerate those who disagree with you without calling them war criminals and hounding them out of jobs they are imminently qualified for.

Nice troll. A+

During Katrina- in case you forgot who you are dealing with.

While New Orleans drowned, Ms Rice went shopping at Ferragamo spending thousands on shoes. Someone in the store shouted “How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!” Rice had security PHYSICALLY REMOVE the woman.

Just the kind you want on your board. Really?

I’m sorry Drew, but this post reminds me of watching Bagdad Bob attempt damage control on CNN back during the Gulf War. Nice try though. I’ve already removed all my data from Dropbox and I’m looking for alternatives to those services that require Dropbox.

Dr. Rice is liar and dropbox is making a big mistake allowing her on your board.

Yes, I think they will let Dr Rice go. They’re a business and the free market is speaking.
Let’s face it, the customer base they get business from is the demographic that is appalled by the appointment of someone who is so involved with the buildup of the surveillance state. Aging Tea Partiers screaming “I STAND WITH DROPBOX!!!!” just because Rice was a Republican aren’t exactly a consumer base for high tech services like Dropbox.
And yes, the current administration is just as bad, I don’t know why you have to bring the current president into everything. Obama has nothing to do with this. This ISN’T only ‘liberals’ objecting to this move by Dropbox.

As for the rest, I think you should just take a breath here. Politics isn’t life, you’ll have a better time of things if you don’t hold so much anger in your heart.

Shame to see Dropbox tarnishing their brand like this. Too bad they didn’t ask Dr. Rice how people would react to adding someone with no respect for their privacy to the board.

Fine with me, not interested in liberal activists out to make sure no conservative gets a job anywhere. I stopped using Firefox recently, would hate to stop using Dropbox as well..

SEEYA DROPBOX!!

My 2 year deal with you thanks to HTC was up next month anyways!

Not canceling just yet, but turned off Dropbox and switched stuff to iCloud for now as I wait to see your response. Ms Rice goes or I do one week from today. Your call.

I’m sorry Drew but that response to your customers outrage at such a completely inappropriate hire is not helping “We’re honoured to have Dr. Rice join our board” ? I am very disappointed, Dropbox has employed some very impressive people in the past like Guido van Rossum but this is ridiculous. As been pointed out already, there are not many people in the world that would have been a worse choice. Rice stands for the abuse of government power against its citizens, corruption and the erosion of the constitution. Rice has been promoting the stealing of personal data by the NSA. I had just moved all my data over here from Ubuntu One, looks like I will need to move it elsewhere if this is not properly addressed.

Thank god Dropbox is not bowing to the liberal elite pressuring them to stop Dr Rice’s appointment. It pains me when the liberal cause-a-holics try to turn nothing into something. Stop trying to make something out of nothing. Dropbox deserves the ability to select people of high character like Dr Rice.

If I thought for a moment that politics and bigotry wasn’t the prime force behind the hostility towards Dr. Rice, then yes. You’d be quite right. Why I can say with authority that this is not the case is that when the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak, the silence is deafening. Double standards apply so evidently that it has become a farce.
Anger in my heart? Spare me the pop psychobabble. I don’t hate America. I only increasingly despise her citizens. She deserves so much better.

Why don’t you do us all a favor and go play in traffic.

So why, then, do you keep supporting a war criminal as chief executive? Double standards, anyone?

I’ve had a good experience with SugarSync so far besides a promotional pricing expiring after a year and charging me at the regular rate without notice:

https://www.sugarsync.com/

Why are you posting the complete polar opposite of what you JUST posted? Doing some A/B testing?

And I’m honoured to have this opportunity to take actions against a war criminal and threat to personal privacy … thanks for giving me the opportunity to do so by shutting down both my Drop box accounts.

We DON’T WANT the government (yes that one that Barack Obama currently runs) or any government to have access to our data. That’s why we’re upset Dropbox is appointing an advocate of spying on citizens to their board.
It’s nothing to do with “oh no, she’s a Republican” or anything like that. There are some Republicans actively standing up against government intrusion into our digital property and government surveillance (Rand Paul for example). Dr Rice unfortunately is the polar opposite to that, and her appointment to the board shows that Dropbox does NOT take protection of our data seriously.

Looking at SeaFile now…

DropBox should never have invited Dr. Rice to be on the board. They should have known all too well after the Mozilla incident that American progs are far too bigoted to tolerate a black Republican woman in any position of power.

It saddens me to see how, after only five years of the current administration, Obama’s viciously divisive and racial policies have so radically polarized the country. Touted by his boot-licking press as ‘post racial’, he has all but created the ground for a low-level civil war in America.

Big mistake Dropbox. Dr Rice vs civil liberty? Dr Rice vs privacy? Dr Rice loves surveillance! Dr Rice vs your paying customer base?

There are simply thousands of people who can do just as good a job as her developing the Dropbox service. Why her? This is a COLOSSAL cock up!

Drop her now. She’s not wanted here. I will have to, regrettably, sadly, cancel my account and move to any number of other providers. Two weeks. That’s how long you have.

All those ten bucks will soon add up you know…

It has nothing to do with her being black, or a woman (or a Republican arguably). It’s a case of having someone directly responsible in the loss of lives of hundreds of thousands of innocents.

Unfortunately, the damage has already been done. The vote to bring her on board in the first place shows where their priorities lie.

Zero to do with race, Everything to do with her own actions past and present.
You brought race into this NO one else has. Look into the mirror pal before you start pulling the race card

Whether you leave us or not, we still have archived versions of your documents.

Wahahaha

Well it would seem that you are sincere. In which case my post about the Dem’s polarization of America is all the more apropos. They (and the RINOs) have allowed politics to swallow everything, in the name of personal power. Now there is nothing untainted by politics. I can quite agree that there are cogent arguments against Dr. Rice’s appointment, although there are also arguments in favor. Regrettably, it is becoming increasingly impossible to argue anything on its own merits, due to the bigotry of the progs and the frustration and alienation of the conservatives. This is Obama’s legacy.

Seriously, knock it off. Your pulling the racist card over and over and over only proves that YOU are in fact racist.

That’s pretty much what I’m going with. It’s a wait and see. Do they walk the walk, or is it just talk.

Part of the Son of a Bush regime. A war criminal and liar. Good luck Dropbox. I’m outta here.

You should try to take the next step and move to an alternate provider too.

I had been deliberating on joining Dropbox. I would definitely tend toward joining now because I have seen an integrity, intelligence and moral principle at work in her past actions and words. Thanks for making her part of the Dropbox team.

Your logic is totally false, Crueber. Repeating something does not make it false. Very weak attempt at arguing. If someone is a racist and a bigot, saying so 100 times does not make it not so. Sorry, but that was an absolutely idiotic claim.

Nobody got fired from any boards when FB and Google were PROVEN to have let the Obama administration have access to information. Now just on the mere suspicion, we are to have a witch hunt? This doesn’t seem double standard to you? How I envy your ideological blinkers.

And to claim that I am a racist because I am calling out someone else as a racist? Seriously? How absolutely infantile.

Done. It’s a pain in the ass to move 10s of GB, but it’s less painful than paying to be abused.

Great job! Whom did you move to out of curiosity?

No matter how many words I would put to descibe how disappointedly I became when I read your blog, still I need more.
Genetlemen, I’m here asking all the developers to get united against this shameful act and let us build a whole new cloud storge where privecy is our top PRIORITY. Lets call it “PrivCon”.

It is a shame to affiliate with a person like Dr Rice, Dropbox! This is a wake up call for me to move myself and all my family and friends to one of the many other alternatives to Dropbox.

Really not happy that you appointed the war criminal Condoleeza Rice to your BOD. I just created my Box account.

I love how all these people didn’t care when her firm was a paid advisor to Dropbox, but now that she’s been appointed to the board, well NOW they don’t want to use Dropbox anymore. As a paying dropbox user, I applaud the appointment of Dr. Rice and I will continue to stand by Dropbox & recommend your product.

Dr Rice adds no business experience, failed foreign policy expertise, and questionable politics to your board. I struggle to impute any good reason for you to put her there, and the fact that you seem to think it a good idea makes is completely impossible for me to take your first paragraph above at face value. I won’t be trusting my data to your company any further.

I already stop using dropbox… I’m not going to use a service from people who hire genocides like this “person”

Meeeeeeesher heeeeeeerih

“we’ve been fighting for transparency and government surveillance reform, and why we’ve been vocal and public with our principles and values.”
Is this the “board of directors we?” If yes, finding online quotes via public media showing ALL your board of directors, including new additions, being VOCAL and PUBLIC about how they fight for TRANSPARENCY and government surveillance reform (as in “less of it”, not “more of it”) should be a piece of cake for people applauding the growth of your leadership team.
I look forward to reviewing the URLs pro-Rice present that succinctly and clearly show her reversal on warrantless wiretaps on broad swaths of the US people, to show how she is a great fit as a director who will “resist requests that seek information related to large groups of users or that don’t relate to specific investigations.”
It’s one thing for the founder of Dropbox to claim “Governments should instead request user data by contacting online
services directly and presenting legal process. This allows services to
scrutinize the data requests and resist where appropriate.” I’d like to see ALL of the board of directors claim this, with a straight face if possible.

You dropbox no know, me no know u. U black no good, no know ? YOU KICK!!

Mrs. Rice should be working in cotton business not some silicon valley company :(

This is not a political issue. She is a fascist genocide. You can count how many murders she commit with this gang

What about the 100,000+ Iraqis?

Nobody: got a VPS, and now syncing it with my computers using Bit Torrent Sync.

It’s a bad decision on so many levels. Even giving her the benefit of the doubt that torture and warrantless wiretapping were not her idea, why would you want someone who just goes along with bad ideas on your board?

I’ve been a customer for a few years now and I absolutely love the service. I honestly don’t know how I could live without it. I am going to start looking for alternatives either hosted or self-hosted if you don’t “Eich” her. As great as it must have seemed on paper to have the clout of someone as famous (or infamous) as Condi on your board, this is not the big name I want associated with a company that I love and recommend to all my friends and associates.

“We’re honored to have Dr. Rice join our board — she brings an incredible amount of experience and insight into international markets and the dynamics that define them.”
Sorry, but you must bei kidding… She shurely has much experience with “international” issues, but I’d not call them markets….

Epic fail :(

This just riles me up even more. Whoever is in charge of your PR should be retrained.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that no matter how long this dance of yours will take in the end your only option to save your reputation will be to remove Dr Rice from your board.

BTSync is where its at. I basically operate my own distributed cloud between all my devices, and if i need to share something i just send a secret key. Unlimited free encrypted storage that doesn’t require a third party. If you’ve got computers in multiple locations, there’s no reason to use dropbox or any thirdparty service honestly.

I’m liberal, not particularly an activist, and I am not troubled by Dr. Rice’s appointment because of her political service. Her views on privacy are germane to the conversation, and I would suspect that her contributions to board level conversations would be balanced by other members.

However the defense of her appointment in terms of “understanding international markets” is laughable. As others have pointed out there are 100′s if not 1000′s of people better equipped to help Box expand internationally. Most concerning about Dr. Rice is her demonstrated inability to understand the post cold-war world. It’s fine for a Sovietiologist to misspeak on occasion and use “Soviet Union” instead of Russia, a bit embarrassing when the person is the National Security Advisor or Secretary of State. But with a track record of applying 1980′s thinking to 21st century geo-politics – Dr. Rice’s appointment is dangerous to Box’s future (unless the company is targeting the high growth potential of the Commonwealth of Independent states – I’ve heard that Armenia has some real market potential once people stop ripping up internet lines for copper scrap http://goo.gl/EBVQks).

someone who goes along with bad ideas = “team player”

Fun to watch all the leftists crying about this. Perhaps we should call them sexists and racist because they dare to oppose her publically? LMFAO

Give you the insight to what? All she know is wiretap, torture and NSA!!!!

BTSync is where its at – Unlimited free encrypted file sync with version history, great speed, and no third party trust needed =]

Is not just leftists. She is well know to have a bad reputation.

انا لا اتفق معكم في نقاشكم العقيم

Yea Rice was totally an obama cabinet member.

I was shot in Iraq. Guess why I was there? Paid subscription cancelled.

Deleting comments I see. I’d expect as much from people who support war criminals.

بالنيابه عني و عن جميع إخوتي العراقيين أقول للدكتوره كوندليسه يا العبده حدس تبيعين مساويك بحلة العبيد.

I just happened to delete my account. Tschüss!

Dr. Rice is a proven liar.

Think twice before hiring a war criminal with wiretapping history. And, even if you are really just so dumb, then still – why would ANYONE want to do business with you. Just deleted my account. Good luck with expanding your global footprint LOL

Well said

Dropbox, your PR response is to this issue is not good. You do not take your customer’s reasoning into account, and instead highlight her credentials and the fact that you’re wanting to expand internationally. Great, we want to see Dropbox succeed and grow, but aligning yourself with the right people , instilling confidence and acceptance by your customers.

The fact that you are going ahead with aligning yourself with someone like Rice shows that you are ok with, and accept the mass violations of privacy that she is attached to. While I’m sure the other members of your board will attempt to uphold your privacy values we’ve come to know and respect, accepting someone like Rice with open arms into your Board is concerning for users.

Remember, we’re talking about a service that we are trusting with our most important business and personal data.

With such a backlash from your users as this has gotten, it would only make sense to take their concerns more seriously and address them head on, rather than stating her other credentials as a reason for ignoring the rest.

Well, that’s enough to make me complete my decision to drop dropbox. You guys have taken a great service and destroyed it thru complete cluelessness and insensitivity to your community. How could you ever think putting a war criminal on your board would be a good thing?

Immediately deleted my 4+ year paid account when I heard the news yesterday.

“international markets” – you guys really think anyone outside of the US is going to want anything to do with Dropbox now that you’re in bed with an ex-government, Bush administration war criminal crony? RIP Dropbox.

When does a team player becomes an accomplice?

“Dr. Rice understands our stance on these issues and fully supports our commitments to our users.”

Do you understand her stances on torture and personal privacy? You should research them sometime. They seem to contradict what I hope your core values would be.

Good for you. You’ve still lost my account, and with it any possibility of my ever becoming a paid member… and apparently I’m in good company. But as long as you and Condi are happy with it…

I am sure Dr. Rice, with her great and accomplished mind, will help dream up some pretexts for global footprint expansion, legal or not, welcome or not.

Dr. Rice is a monstrous human being and association with her is unacceptable. Just deleted my account and my business will not be exploring Dropbox for Business.

Racist.

I don’t get it… why even give the appearance that we need to worry about this. Farewell dropbox. There are simply too many other services that do exactly the thing and do not make we wonder about this issue.

Drew,

Here is my reply to your “commitment”: after five years at roughly $100/year, I am packing up shop effective immediately and am moving to a cloud storage company that chooses appointees to their board with more foresight and – more importantly – with more regard to its product and better a understanding of its customers’ needs.

I sincerely hope that many, many more paying customers choose this avenue. Perhaps then you might understand that (overtly) mixing politics with business is a terrible idea.

When they’re on the board of directors.

I’ll be dropping dropbox as soon as I get up & running on Spideroak!

Done with Dropbox, it was fun. Come on Box.com!:)

When it means a promotion or untold riches.

Allowing comments on this post just reinforces the fact Dropbox don’t have a clue what they’ve unleashed here.

I was kinda on the fence about leaving, until reading this latest post. The very fact that you thought you had to explain, yet are still standing by possibly the most stupid business decision ever made by any company just goes to prove you simply do not understand what a very large number of the people who pay your wages expect of you.

In the process of moving on right now.

Goodbye, fascist-lovers.
You’re dumber than Mozilla.

ياقو قلبك على الصدة وياصبرك
وياوسع صدري على صدك وياصبري
***
وياطول عمرك بذاكرتي وياكبرك
وياشيب عيني بشيب عاد ذا كبري
***
والله لو أن حمل صبري فوقك كنت تبرك
ووالله لو تعتذر منتب على خبري
***
إما جبرك الغلا مقدر على جبرك
ياللي على أرض الوفا ماشبرك بشبري
***
تزعل وترجع وتلقاني على خبرك
وأنا أنكسر لك وأجيك أدور لجبري
***
أمحق وليف ومحبةولا أقول.. أبرك
حسبي عليك أعشقك وانت تحفر لقبري

مع تحيات محمد ابن فطيس حبيب كوندليسه

صح لسانك!

She is a monstrous human being for the wars of aggression she helped start and continue, and the hundreds of thousands who died as a result, not to mention the many millions who essentially had their lives destroyed. How the hell did you bring her race into this?

It would be a tribute to the current board if they could own up to their mistake and ditch Condi. If they can’t see or do this, then the CEO has them by the short and curlies and we can hardly expect them to withstand Condi’s considerable and nefarious talents. I was thinking about Dropbox. Not any more.

True tongue

Starting the process of moving my files from Dropbox with an eye towards deleting my paid account. No way am I doing business with any company associated with Dr. Rice.

Thank you dear, I wish I could express my gratitude to your comment… anally.

just admit your mistake and ditch Dr. Rice.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Actions speak louder than words. You can’t take an action that screams at 1000 decibels and then write a few weak words like this and somehow take it all back. You can’t hire Satan and say, don’t worry, he won’t be doing any of the stuff he is famous for, he’s going to be doing some other stuff for us. Good stuff. Don’t worry. It’s absurd that you’re worrying!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

A lack of morals *and* completely incompetent at corporate messaging. DROPBOX! Hear us roar!

my dropbox account was kaput yesterday

It’s like having to explain a joke no one laughed at.

I stand with Dropbox. Ms. Rice stood up for America in one of its darkest moment. The terrorist that tried to destroy us had no qualms about using any means to kill americans and destroy our freedoms. Weak- kneed liberals can feel safe thanks in part to what she had to do.

LMAO

> yet are still standing by possibly the most stupid business decision ever made by any company

Would you like to take that back.

Dr. Rice is a famous authoritarian. That is the opposite of libertarian, which you are using in your screen name, and yet for some odd reason, you are defending Dr. Rice. What is the disconnect there for you?

lol nice troll m8. use a diff username from your serious post next time

Keep Dr. Rice. don’t be pushed around by the morons on the left

When your team is committing crimes. Especially crimes against humanity.

Don’t feed the trolls.

If you love the constitution and the freedoms provided by it, you should hate Rice.

we stand by dropbox.

It is really the worst racism to deny Dr. Rice the responsibility for her own world famous failures.

I think if you were to poll all the people who are against Dr. Rice being added to the DropBox board, the fact that she is a woman and African-American would be the only POSITIVE things we would point to regarding her.

In other words, what a lot of us are saying is that we give DropBox an A for adding a woman to their board, and we give them an A for adding an African-American person to their board, and we give them 1000 F’s for adding Dr. Rice to their board.

That is why it is easy to say that nobody is trying to exclude Dr. Rice from the DropBox board because of sexism or racism. The fact that she is a woman and African-American are THE ONLY POSITIVE THINGS ABOUT HER.

She has no idea about markets

What has this got to do with liberals? Nothing. Dr. Rice is despised across the ideological spectrum.

You stand alone

“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.”

It doesn’t matter if they fire her now. You can’t walk into a room and take a sh*t in the middle of the floor and then take it back.

Woah. Reverse this decision or lose a user, and I will spread the word like a virus to use other systems.

Since the Snowden-Leaks there is only one decent answer from software perspective:
break-prism.https://prism-break.org/en/

Concretely:
Since PRISM we know that it doesn’t make that much of a difference, if you drop your data in the box or the NSA mailbox. What’s the privacy strenghening alternative to dropbox ? … prism-break.org… and there… Computer / GNU/Linux… and there… file storage & sync… AH, THERE IT IS: SparkleShare, git-annex or MyKolab ! Problem(=dropbox) solved !
And don’t forget to also work against surveillance as a voter by voting for political parties, which are strictly against surveillance, like for instance the pirate parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party

I will transition to a new service as soon as I can.

But you have to understand, a lot of tech investors are trust fund babies who have almost no exposure to the real world and almost no understanding of the actual harm that people like Dr. Rice have done to the lives of millions of people. You can’t rely on the people who run DropBox to have a fully developed sense of ethics.

Is the Constitution being protected under the Obama regime? The NSA is still doing its thing; the IRS is politically targeting the Tea Party; Obama Care regulations are changed on a whim. So who protects and defends the Constitution? Who was responsible for the deaths in Benghazi?

I must say, you are one of the few calm voices around here: well done.

Me and my wife both use the 100GB account. I’ve always been worried about privacy with Dropbox. This just cements the fact they don’t care. We’ll be gone when our next payment is due.

Hmmm.. privacy was not her hallmark. I can’t even fathom why she was brought in. Connections to the military industrial complex? She was one of the Vulcans (yes this group of neo-cons who thought they could just roll over the other countries because there was no USSR anymore). People tell me she is bright but the world is filled with very bright people. She screwed up badly and has not shown even a bit of remorse. But if you are well connected you can keep on screwing up.
Drop box stores a lot of information. Having Condi on board will cause you to lose international markets rapidly. That is a huge market. The US market can’t grow as fast as the rest of the world (BRIC and others).

I really don’t believe corporations can have a conscience but I think they should have business sense. This one does not make any sense.

I don’t understand your question. The situation is exactly the same. I dropped both Firefox and DropBox. They don’t exist for me anymore because life is short and equality is fundamental.

This will be my last month with your service unless this changes. I’m also no longer recommending your service to clients. Trust is a valuable thing and this decision shows you are not concerned about trust.

My startup uses Dropbox through a paid individual account. As we grow, we have the potential to become a business account. However, I cannot stand behind the apparent disconnect between the decision to appoint Dr. Rice to the Board and Dropbox’s stated privacy policy. This is not about partisan politics. This is about her qualifications to be on the Board of a company that has access to my companies private data. Given the fact that during her tenure as National Security Director, the USA implemented many elements of spying, I cannot accept or condone her actions. While she may be perfectly acceptable on the board of many companies, to me she is not acceptable on Dropbox’s Board. For this reason, if she is not removed, I will make certain that my companies data is moved to another cloud service.

Whatever happened to tolerance in America? I guess it doesn’t extend to Republicans and conservatives. Kudos to Dropbox for putting Dr. Rice, a great American, on your Board of Directors and being proud of your decision. Please ignore the intolerant voices on the left (aka Thought Police) who want to take her down.

Looks like Dropbox just shot itself in the head. This move shows complete lack of judgement!

Thanks for saving me the cash. I was planning to use some of my tax return to buy some storage space. But i think I’ll look into buying some from people who aren’t “honored” to be working with a war criminal.

It doesn’t extend to war criminals.

I expect a certain level of integrity from the people I entrust my privacy to.
Condoleeza Rice does not meet the barest of minimum standards as far as I am concerned.

If you continue with her appointment I will have to cancel my service and advise my client base to seek file storage and sharing facilities elsewhere.

Thought Police? She IS Big Brother!

Yeah that’s great. You just appointed someone who HEADED the NSA to “not spy on me”? Well, I’m going to be convincing my friends, family, and other people who I previously referred to drop dropbox and switch services.
Great work!

How long should I wait to see if you come to your senses before I migrate? I would hate to do all that work and then have you get a clue.

Get rid of the Former HEAD OF THE NSA! Or we will get RID OF YOU!

it not the Republican or conservative part its the torture and war part that is the problem.

I’m mirroring my stuff to Mega.co.nz (they give you 50GB for free) and then waiting a week until I leave. You would think they could put a statement out by then.

If you keep Rice on the board I will close my account and move to Google Drive.

Not in love with Spideroak. Keep looking people. Having to switch makes me realize even more what a good service DB was, and how painful it is to leave it. But I am gone.

عن أي نقاش تتحدث؟ ألا توافق على أن جعل كوندوليزا رايس عضو في مجلس الإدارة قرارٌ غبي؟

Bye.

Condoleeza Rice wasn’t the head of the NSA. Derp.

I just realized they say they are HONORED to have her on board ….while she is THE DEFINITION OF DISHONOR. That was an “own goal” in the extra time dropbox….RIP

I’ve been a user since the private beta. I had no problem deleting my account. G’bye.

Indeed. More like “international destruction”.

Would you be just as honored to have Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld on your board?
What are you thinking? Ms. Rice had largely escaped opprobrium but she was just as wrong and just as responsible for the war as any. Not to even mention her Lebanon involvement.

I like your service but feel conscience bound to take my business elsewhere.

If you keep Condoleeza Rice on the board I will delete my account.

Thank you for standing up to the mob.Liberalism used to be about free debate in an open society; it has devolved into progressivism, and is now about intimidation and winning at any cost.

Drew –

Dr. Rice is no doubt an intelligent and knowledgeable person with unique experiences and perspectives. The problem is that she is also a person whose integrity cannot be considered intact, particularly on issues pertaining to privacy and human rights.

You cannot simply dismiss these concerns. Politics is always messy, but the events in which Dr. Rice involved herself were both unambiguously criminal and unambiguously harmful to the United States. I cannot say how much of the responsibility for these actions can be ascribed to Dr. Rice, but you CANNOT deny that she chose to participate in them of her own free will. She could have walked away at any time, and yet she did not. She made these choices, and those choices reflect on her character. The same goes for you.

Your choice to associate your company with her indicates that you do not value integrity. This is disappointing. As a customer, I find it absolutely unacceptable.

Since you insist on placing this war criminal on our board, I will exercise my right to discontinue using your service!

Putin for CEO

Not the former head of the NSA. The NSC. Try to get your ginned up outrage facts right.

National Security Adviser is not the same as NSA.

That said, I would guess she is lucky not to be sitting in The Hague in a jail cell waiting to be tried, so same difference.

I support Dropbox and having Dr Rice on your board!

Keep Dr. Rice and lose half of your user base. Only a moron would advocate such nonsense *smh*

shame on you Dropbox, what benefit is Rice giving you? tax breaks? snooping user data? future govnt contract? I certainly will be spreading the word…

Yeah, the problem is that your principles include weasel words pretty similar to those used by every other company who provided back-door access to Government when asked, and didn’t tell anyone it was happening, even lying about it when confronted with accusations. What does “cooperating with Law Enforcement” mean to you? I know what Dr. Rice thinks it means, wiretaps without warrants whenever ‘National Security’ is invoked, with no need for any public oversight. Has she changed these views? Does she have anything to say for herself about her perspective on PRISM and warrant-less data requests from dropbox in the future?

Can you say anything that doesn’t suggest the moment anybody with a .gov email asks you for my data that you’ll give them the keys with a smile?

Thanks to Dropbox for taking a stand against the left-wing witch-hunts that have become all too common in our society. I’ll believe the sincerity of those who oppose Dr. Rice when they also protest Hillary Rodham Clinton for her involvement in the Obama administration’s deadly drone strikes.

Added: Not to mention the sterling record of the Obama administration and the NSA on privacy rights. I’m sure you’ll all be protesting any time someone from this administration gets appointed to a board in the future.

No, you won’t. Because protests aren’t for people with a (D) after their name, are they?

Rice certainly has experience with “expansion into new countries”–she expertly employed deception to facilitate our invasion of Iraq. Her involvement with DropBox already seems to have produced similar results: provoking an “insurgency” of sorts that will only abate when DropBox acknowledges its error and withdraws.

Shes a douch and now you are too.

Yeah, drone strikes aren’t super popular among the left, I’m not sure what exactly you’re thinking of. My main problem isn’t that Dr. Rice is right-leaning, it’s that with Dropbox my only concerns are with the security of my data and that the service works. The only thing Dr. Rice has publicly said about privacy is that I don’t have any reasonable expectation of it, and that in light of a ‘reasonable’ question of National Security (determined in secret by the requesting authority), my data should be accessed, and Dropbox explicitly said Dr. Rice was an advisor in matters of privacy. That is my problem.

Thank you Dropbox for standing up to the left wing mob who defends freedom of speech only when it is their speech (case in point forcing out Mozilla’s CEO for exactly vthe same views as Obama, Clintons and other 50% of Californians). I am proud to be your customer and support the great product.

very well said.

I’ve deleted my account. Your statement that she brings “insights into international markets and the dynamics that define them” is an insult to our intelligence. What does Dropbox intend to do next? Get into water boarding?

A perfect example of just how stupid and out of touch these companies. Me and my company will be moving on to a new provider. Seems though the hard core US republican cheer leaders will stay on. Well done DropBox.

outlawpoet, I respect your concern about privacy. But I don’t see the threat here — world of difference between a government trying to keep the country safe from terrorism and a commercial enterprise providing a service to customers. I absolutely believe that for most people this is a knee-jerk left-wing reaction. HRC as Secretary of State also did nothing to stop the NSA or this administration’s invasions of privacy. But if she were named to the board, I doubt we’d even hear a peep. And whatever protest we did hear, the same people protesting now would be crying “sexism.”

Yes, there were so many pro-gay marriage political candidates back in 1992, 1996 and 2008, it’s a shame that the liberals didn’t choose one of them.

But I agree with you: Screw Obama. He’s a pro-wiretapping war monger. (And I didn’t vote for him).

Now, please tell all the liberals why they should have voted for McCain or Romney; did either of them support gay marriage? Either of them come out against NSA spying? Either of them come out against the Iraq invasion?

Stupid Liberals! Your candidate is just as horrible as the other candidate when it comes to these things!

And getting back to Rice… what about her lies leading to the invasion of Iraq makes you want to support her? Seriously, take all that out of the context of American politics, and ask why you would want her on your board?

She either lies about the WMDs or was so horrible at her job that they truly thought Saddam had them. Which of those two things makes her a good board member?

It would be one thing if you had turned her over to Iraq for a war crimes trial and execution, but putting her on your board after she participated in illegal surveillance during the Bush Administration? We’re canceling our company account.

may i recommend dr. evil to join the board

Regrettably, the “honor” you are so profoundly experiencing in having Dr. Rice join your board has indelibly tarnished your brand. And from that, there is little hope of fully recovering. The damage is done. Even if you back off and remove her from your board now (which you should–to save yourselves from further humiliation) Dropbox will forever be associated with this colossal blunder. Forever.

Think about that. The Dropbox brand forever associated with the word, “Torturer”.

Great American what? War criminal? Traitor? Liar? “We don’t want the smoking gun to come in the shape of a mushroom cloud?”

That would have been scary…except that she lied. Iraq had no WMDs.

Why would Dropbox put a documented liar on its board?

Thank you, Dropbox. Dr. Rice will be a great addition to your board.

Until Dr. Rice recants her positions on the rights of government to peer into our private data and specifically affirms her support of the sanctity of private data from any sort of access without a very specific and tailored court order, I can’t possibly trust my data to dropbox any longer.

Dr. Rice is brilliant and accomplished without question and could be a tremendous asset to dropbox going forward, but as a board member she has a tremendous amount of influence of the direction of dropbox as a company. As long as I suspect that she would support dropbox giving unfettered and illegal access to my data to the NSA or any portion of the US government, I can’t continue to send my data to dropbox and have removed all application and device connections from dropbox.

I understand DropBox’s reasoning behind appointing Dr. Rice to the board and i understand the need that’s being addressed. Dr. Rice is not inherently unsuitable to that post, no matter her politics or any other “qualifying” factors. But until she states publicly that she was wrong to undermine user’s security and that she values user’s privacy above the rights of the state, she has no place on the board of any company that I would do business with,

she was wrong on everything about Iraq; I would question her judgement;

I just closed my accounts because I cannot abide by a company that financially supports
Condoleezza Rice regardless of their promises to keep a muzzle on her.

How come when I boycott something I don’t like it’s a vicious intolerant witch-hunt, but when you boycott something you don’t like it’s exercising your Constitutional freedoms?

Drew –

Is this the kind of discussion you want associated with your company? Dropbox is about storing files. Everyone needs to store files. Republicans, Democrats, Americans, Iraqis, liberals, conservatives. We all need to store files.

You had to know that working with Dr. Rice would have stain Dropbox with her unavoidable, indellable partisan position. Why would you want to pick a side? What the heck does that have to do with storing files?

Russell

i doubt it.

I think you are right that HRC would provoke less of a public reaction, but I’d feel the same way and can only speak for myself. I also think that Diane Feinstein is a criminal crying crocodile tears now that it’s clear public mood is swinging against the NSA, but I think I’m alone on the Left in that one.

I theoretically have no problem with the question of National Security trumping some legal expectations. But in practice, the infrastructure put in place gets misused if the oversight doesn’t prevent it. And PRISM and other NSA programs have already been used to provide evidence for very non-National Security prosecutions like vice arrests and drug charges. Worse, when the arrests are made, local police and prosecutors are told to lie about the data provided from these programs, inventing a false ‘chain of evidence’ they then claim inspired them to make those charge stick, since the NSA data originates without a warrant. This is outrageous, and I don’t mind saying that I am a bit afraid that if I upset a LEO they will go on a fishing trip through my records. And if DropBox is providing “metadata” to these programs, I could face nuisance chargers for anything from music I might not have the reciept for, to the confusing array of documents that might or might not violate export agreements or ITAR (I work in tech and nonprofits which are international). Given Dr. Rice’s previous comments on the matter, I suspect her response would be ‘you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide’, but I find that very counter to the legal discovery process I depend on to protect me from both criminals and corrupt governmental officials. I’d love to be proven wrong, but DropBox doesn’t seem inspired to say anything but very vague reassurances.

Google drive? Really? Isn’t that the company that mines your email for information to sell to marketers? That turned over information to the government when asked? Yeah, that’ll really show Dropbox.

Really? When was she charged, tried and convicted?

what other war criminals will you hire to your board? If we catch Kony will he be next? How about that N Korean dictator? Kim il what’s his face? This was dumb move by dumb people. You won’t recover from it.

I am too lazy to cancel my account. But I will be using Google drive going forward.

If you want to inspire confidence in your security…. I wouldn’t hire the national security advisor during 9/11… the biggest security failure in US history.

I will not be using dropbox anymore.

His candidate for 2016 is Vladimir Putin.

Trust… It’s so hard to build and so easy to destroy. This is the kick in the pants I needed to stop relying on DropBox.

At least we learned something today: those of you who were wondering if Drew Houston was smart or not, now you know that he’s totally stupid. Because, to write “we’re honored to have Condoleeza Rice on our board” you have to be really – but REALLY – stupid.

moving my files out now…

Again with the war criminal nonsense. When was she charged, let alone tried and convicted of war crimes? And as mentioned several times above she was not the head of the NSA – she was the National Security Advisor.

I love drop box even more now than ever. Dr Rice is an excellent choice.

sure.

Yes, Dr. Rice is in serious danger of never having a successful career here.

I have removed all my data from DropBox’s servers and removed the application from my devices. I will not be using this service again. Condoleeza Rice is a warmonger who worked for an administration guilty of war crimes.

Sorry, this is a mistake. Dr. Rice is a smart person who has made some very questionable choices where the law and wiretapping intersect. Which is exactly the wrong sort of person I want on the board of a company that is supposed to be storing and safeguarding my data.

If you do not eliminate Rice from your board you lose my business.

Good riddance.

Good on ya, DB. You have my continued business and even greater admiration.

I like the free service dropbox provides. Eventually I will pay for upgraded storage. Even though I disapproved of the Bush administration, even appointing Bush himself wouldn’t change my opinion of this company.

Looks like the collective intelligence of the dropbox userbase is about to skyrocket by way of attrition.

This is just awful… big FAIL

Come to their senses?
To consider her is to demonstrate that they have no sense.
Game over.

A war criminal as a board member. I have dropped Dropbox.

Luckily there are plenty of options – Google Drive is nice, bye

Dropbox what do you employees think about the move to bring Condi Rice onto the board? Do you think you will have some attrition there? I am a software engineer by trade and I would walk out in a heartbeat based on this decision. It shows a real lack of judgment by your executive team.

Bad Horse

Sorry, this is a mistake. Dr. Rice is a smart person who has made some very questionable choices where the law and wiretapping intersect. Which is exactly the wrong sort of person I want on the board of a company that is supposed to be storing and safeguarding my data.

If Dr. Rice publicly makes amends for her part in the propagation of the lies about the Iraq war and her part in the ensuing “privacy debacle” that even now divides our nation – then i will return to using DropBox. I am moving to BitCasa & Copy.

U b racist?

My love for Dropbox is vastly exceeded by my dislike for Dr. Rice. Until such time as Dr. Rice apologizes for her role in the illegal invasion of Iraq (which is as likely as the proverbial snowball in Hell), I say Adios, DropBox!

Wow. TERRIBLE response. I was going to let it slide, but I’m more likely to look for alternatives now. #clueless

You Suck, and have lost my custom. Goodbye.

She does have loads of experience with international markets. Sadly that’s experience blowing them up, but still …

She is part of the most tragic domestic and foreign policy this country has seen… yet you want her on your board? The next key strokes you hear will be those of me deleting Dropbox from my computer…

i just heard dropbox is going to start hosting their servers in guantanamo bay

https://spideroak.com/ here I come!

You, dropbox, are pathetic.

I thought the same thing, but it was super easy to switch. Took less than a few minutes. Now I’m just waiting for my files to finish uploading to my new service.

Condoleezza Rice is a pioneer and a hero. It is so sad that people are so blinded by their politics and emotion that they feel compelled to lash out in anger. I have used DropBox for only a few months now, but am now MUCH more loyal. Thanks for standing up for reason and sanity.

It’s not a smart business practice to ignore your customer base dropping you like a hot rock.

President Obama said he was going to shut down Guantanamo Bay his first day in office. That was 5 years and 3 months ago. He’s changed his mind. Maybe it’s time for you to let the emotion and anger go, too?

Obviously not nearly as stupid as you think I am if you expect me to believe that you aren’t yet another brain-dead Obamabot.

3800+ comments and all blocked? What are you hiding from, Jarek kiddo? Why are you afraid to let people see what you say in other posts? Or do you think I am so stupid as to not bother checking out your comment history? Don’t come here hiding your trail like a war criminal on the run and then bleat that nothing you’ve ever said can prove you are a disgusting Obamabot. I smell the sickly slime of OFA PAC.

I’m afraid this is quite realistic. It’s the same reason the University of California hired Janet Napolitano as their president.

Wow dropbox you are going to lose 375 customers maybe 10 of them paying.

Lolllll…. pathetic…. Aside from the fact she is a bloodthirsty political whore… she authorized wiretaps left right and centre… probably the biggest douche move in the history of corporation appointments

Progs do not require any evidence of wrong-doing, only that the person they hate disagree with them. This is, of course, why they they claim to be the party of tolerance. Oh wait…

“I fully understand Dropbox’s commitment to privacy and support their commitments to their users which is why we must invade Iraq because they totes have WMD I swear” -Dr. Rice

Very true. Most of them still living in their mother’s basement.

Shame on you.
Will take my money elsewhere.

Sorry about that. She was the National Security Advisor to President Bush, not the head of the NSA. Now that that’s cleared up, she was clearly an enemy of the rights of freedom for Americans. Between the Bush and Obama administrations, our freedoms have taken quite the beating. I didn’t vote for either of those enemies of America and I’m certainly not going to support DropBox for doing letting their stooges run the company.

bah-bye, see you on SpiderOak!

If she tells you there’s yellow cake in the breakroom, don’t believe her!!1

I suppose it was inevitable that Freepers would surface in this forum. “A pioneer and a hero”? Dr. Rice is brilliant yet unethical (or to be PC, “ethically challenged”), especially with respect to warrantless wiretaps. If you believe that your DropBoxed data will be safer with Dr. Rice on board, then I have a bridge to sell you.

There are many thousands of people with “experience and insight into international markets and the dynamics that define them” but you picked one who also spied on her own citizens and undermined basic security.

You are a loser. Take you nonexistent money and shove it.

Tells most of us that there are unreasonable and shrill people on the internet that make unreasonable demands.

The argument is an ad hominem. The whole thing is a flaw. -10 points.

What a tone deaf CEO. Deleting my account now.

LOL, am I living in an anti-reality vortex. You are pissed about Rice on dropbox so you go to google which pretty much is known to work hand in hand with the NSA.

The fact that you compared Rice to Kim Jung Un reveals how unreasonable and shrill the opponent of this decision are.

The fact that you have to qualify this announcement with a commitment to privacy is telling. I think the [online cloud service] dotht protest too much

Whatever will they do without 60 unreasonable and fickle customers?!

Also, shes seriously a war criminal who is a known opponent of privacy.

Ah, now that’s classic prog. Whenever I make some argument they can’t answer, they get it blocked! What’s the matter, crue? Cat got your tongue?

glad to say I’m using DB less and less.. have just upgraded my Box and Google Drive accounts.

Got it. Btsync it is.

Very intelligent reply. We can tell you are educated.

Ah, now that’s classic prog. Whenever I make some argument they can’t answer, they get it blocked! What’s the matter, Jarek? Cat got your tongue?

Pioneer war criminal

Condi Rice is a war criminal. I have dropped dropbox.

Noni said it. I deleted Dropbox as soon as I heard the news of the War Criminal Rice joining your Board. A decision that demonstrates that the company leadership is CLUELESS.

Actually, he was blocked by congress. He tried.

Hero to the war monger neocons.

Condoleeza Rice is only a pioneer when it comes to authorizing the inhumane and disgusting torture of others. She is true war criminal and the more discerning of Dropbox’s users already know this and will seek alternatives.

Maybe if the Rethugs let the emotion and anger go he could then close Gitmo.

FYI, canceling your account takes less time than typing those three sentences you just typed.

Dropbox plans to “shock and awe” those international markets open with Rice’s “help”.

I think that if in post WWII Germany if Volkswagon (or any German company) hired Dr. Joseph Gerbels to their board and issued a BS statement like this and said how proud they were to have him, Volkswagon wouldn’t be around today.

Suicide, how to nose dive a company as fast as you can

Dropbox, you rock.

It’s about rewarding torture. You’ve completely missed the point as demonstrated by you saying you’re honored to have her on the board. BTW already downloaded your replacement! Gonna get everything moved over then bye bye.

Smart move Dropbox. Glad to see you are not intolerant of others and understand what’s really going on. Obama is doing the surveillance thing. If people writing here really believe Condi is bad, then contact your congressional representative and request impeachment proceedings against President Obama.

You guys really cheapen the term “war criminal” when you use it against people who you just don’t like. Words have meaning. We actually have international courts that prosecute that stuff. Not one of them would touch it. You can’t prosecute someone because they have an (R) behind their name.

And if we’re really being honest, why not talk about the fact that Obama, Biden, Clinton, et al, the supposed “change we can believe in” have not only continued Bush policies but EXPANDED them, across the board? Maybe they’re all onto something? Or is just every politician, ipso facto, a “war criminal”? Lose the emotion. Lose the hate. Lose the anger. Calm yourselves.

U b idiot (a statement, not a question).

Looks like Dropbox is going to shutter…just like Chik-fil-a had to after you all freaked out about that.

Go find a bridge to menace, troll.

Really? Comparing Condi Rice to Nazis??The intolerant left rears it’s ugly head. If you are not with them, you should be fired. They make me sick!

Congratulations on not yielding to leftist enemies of free speech. I use Dropbox and will do my best to encourage friends to sign up for Dropbox accounts

Stand tall and be brave. If she provides valuable insight and helps you grow your business while still meeting your business principles, do not let people bully you. You have earned my continued business

A lot of references to “war criminal.” Sounds like a lot of the negative responders got there talking points from the same source. Dropbox has seen through that. Smart.

*their

Bye bye Dropbox. I’m off to OneDrive.

Haha. Can’t wait to watch this play out. In less than a month she will be gone with some lame apology.

As disgusted as we all might be, this is a business move. Whether she is on the board publicly or not won’t make a difference. The deals are already made,
she will make a ton off this and so will they. She has the blood of over 500k on her hands, mentally dealing with that is probably all the torture one could take. I will leave too, and my pro account won’t make a dent but I’m not leaving to attempt to hurt their company, just out of principal. Label me a liberal or socialist, I love humans, especially alive and well.

Live well, die happy.

Glad you’re not caving in to the outrageously outraged “tolerance” brigade, Dropbox. (Notice how silent they are about Obama’s drone war? Hypocrites…) I’m keeping my Dropbox and will continue to recommend you to others.

good bye, dropbox.

I’m done, glad I’ve not committed to a yearly sub. Cheers.

The powerful protect the powerful. That is why Jack Straw let Pinochet walk. If we had a president interested in the law, then she would be sitting in The Hague waiting for her trial. But Obama is a coward and unwilling to go up against the Neocon Corporate Fascist Establishment.

I think you were trying to say “she brings an incredible amount of experience and insight into torture and killing of innocents.”

Drones aren’t a topic here. That response is ridiculous. If Obama joins twitter I’ll be gone, you happy?

Until Dr. Rice recants her positions on the rights of government to peer into our private data and specifically affirms her support of the sanctity of private data from any sort of access without a very specific and tailored court order, I can’t possibly trust my data to dropbox any longer. She is one of those that helped to divide this country in a very negative way. She should make amends on DropBox’s Blog. Then I will stay.

Dr. Rice is brilliant and accomplished without question and could be a tremendous asset to dropbox going forward, but as a board member she has a tremendous amount of influence of the direction of dropbox as a company. As long as I suspect that she would support dropbox giving unfettered and illegal access to my data to the NSA or any portion of the US government, I can’t continue to send my data to dropbox and have removed all application and device connections from dropbox.

I understand DropBox’s reasoning behind appointing Dr. Rice to the board and i understand the need that’s being addressed. Dr. Rice is not inherently unsuitable to that post, no matter her politics or any other “qualifying” factors. But until she states publicly that she was wrong to undermine user’s security and that she values user’s privacy above the rights of the state, she has no place on the board of any company that I would do business with.

Certainly, both of them are war criminals. That’s not a distinction made by me or my political affiliations. War crimes are defined by committing them. Is there a war criminal that you think would be better to compare her to? Be sure to remember 1 million Iraqi civilians were killed in your evaluation. If you think it’s ugly to be intolerant of war crimes, I would question what type of person you are. Yes, I am intolerant of war crimes, most Americans are. Apparently, Dropbox is very tolerant of war criminals, mass genocide, torture, and spying on American citizens, in fact they’re proud of their choice.

It was a good ride Dropbox, but I too shall be moving on. I cannot support a company that would have Condoleeza Rice on their board. Too many highly questionable “procedures” happened under her watch and I refuse to participate in anything that rewards her in any way, shape or form.

I am moving my files over to another provider as I type this and will be cancelling my account as soon as it is done.

you mean “moran” don’t you?

She is still a war criminal.

How is murdering over 100K Iraqi civilians and displacing more than 1 million “keeping us safe” ?

Sorry, already gone.

The decision to add Ms Rice to the Dropbox board tells me that Dropbox values power, profit and money over their customers, communities and humanity. I am closing my account.

Good for you. Someone has to take a stand against these fascist tactics of personal destruction or no one is safe. The hypocrisy of the “tolerant” is breathtaking. Firefox got uninstalled. Drop.box forever.

I guess what you’re implying is that if you’re conservative or Republican, you are for war crimes?

I deleted both our corporate and my own personal account this morning.

Bye DB. That was a poor choice on your part. I suspect you’ll be feeling it in the coming months. There are plenty of other company who would love to take my money.

Doctor Rice, the Mengele of 21st century torture tries to wash her stained soul by working with a group as progressive as Dropbox. I quit the Dropbox and everyone I know to do so too. I will refuse dropbox deliveries and hope all will do the same. Dr. Rice is an instant poison pill and all businesses should stay away from her. (she may have a future as an adviser to a hedge fund

Thank you Drop Box! tonight I will sign up for the first time. I hope thousands other will now sign up and double your customers.

not now not ever

My corporation I work for will be adding Drop Box to thousands of our new clients …I hope this helps…Thanks you again for not caving…. Mrs Rice is a very intelligent woman and a great asset to any company.

Haters gonna hate.

Who’d you vote for President? And be honest!

Do you love ‘live’ babies?

Russell Neches • 3 hours ago

Drew –

Dr. Rice is no doubt an intelligent and knowledgeable person with unique experiences and perspectives. The problem is that she is also a person whose integrity cannot be considered intact, particularly on issues pertaining to privacy and human rights.

You cannot simply dismiss these concerns. Politics is always messy, but the events in which Dr. Rice involved herself were both unambiguously criminal and unambiguously harmful to the United States. I cannot say how much of the responsibility for these actions can be ascribed to Dr. Rice, but you CANNOT deny that she chose to participate in them of her own free will. She could have walked away at any time, and yet she did not. She made these choices, and those choices reflect on her character. The same goes for you.

Your choice to associate your company with her indicates that you do not value integrity. This is disappointing. As a customer, I find it absolutely unacceptable.

i’Caled!

Well said

Well… It was a hell of a ride. Thanks for everything Dropbox, I’m really gonna miss Mailbox. You know, until now you haven’t acted suspicious or something… but it doesn’t feel right, you know? – With Dr. Rice aboard I feel a little bit itchy, not completely comfortable. Of course you have all the right to hire whoever you want to… and thanks to that, everyday we, customers, are defining our services. Thanks again.

Did you check who is on their board?

Drew Houston let me give you an advice, I know you are trying to move to international markets, Condoleezza Rice is someone who is disliked overseas. Adding her to your board will cripple your dropbox overseas.

Goodbye DB and Thanks for your excellent service till now. Having war criminals on your board was a stupid choice.

I think of the 450 comments, easily 10% are from this one guy. Talk about trying to manufacture a scandal. Relax, guy… Calm down. It’s not a huge thing of someone in the political party you hate gets a job with a company.

Thank you, http://www.drop-dropbox.com, for the list of Dropbox alternatives.

You’re not alone. Feinstein is a criminal in her own right and needs to get out of the Senate.

This guy, who posts 100 comments against dropbox, is obviously paid by a competitor. Good luck, buddy. Maybe you can get Hillary on your board. Hopefully people won’t be crazy and emotional about politics for your business. :)

I will be transitioning away from dropbox. having Ms. rice anywhere near my data has led to many transgressions in the past.

Seriously, man, copying my comment word-for-word in a public forum? Jeez, think for yourself for a minute,

kudos to Dropbox for thinking outside the “box”.

Adios Dropbox. Thanks for everything… well, everything except ruining our relationship.

Mr. Houston’s response is basically, “trust us.” His response is insufficient. Dr. Rice has a clear history of supporting warrantless wiretapping. In what way will this make users feel more secure about the security of their data on Dropbox? I will be migrating away from Dropbox as a result of her appointment.

A better ‘war crimninal’ to compare Condi to? How about Barrack Obama? How many non militants did he kill on his orders of drone attacks and doing drone attacks in other countries. But don’t take my word for it…

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/18/bill_ayers_obama_has_committed_war_crimes/

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/150907-nader-obama-should-be-impeached-for-war-crimes

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/amnesty-us-officials-war-crimes-drones

Is Pro-Choice a “war” on babies? You know, like the Left touts about the “War on Women” that the Right wages. If you are Left/Democrat, then you’re implying that you are for “war” on babies and the murdering of innocence.

I’ll stack the 56+ million abortions to your 1 million Iraqi civilians any day!

http://www.numberofabortions.com/

Yes!

I moved all my data from Dropbox to Copy. Dropbox really dropped the ball on this one.

I don’t vote, I try.

Thanks for not caving to progressive fascism.

Great to hear Dr. Rice is on the board. I have always been a big fan!

i never really used my account and i will drop it, rice is a war criminal and she has to be careful when on international travel. other countries take war crimes more serious.

Hi troll.

Do you approve abortion on demand?

I feel for you. No one party ‘represents’ me all that well either and really, what do you have when all you basically got is two sides?

What is happening with drop box and the heart bleed bug?

I have liked DropBox for some time; now, I like you even more. Thanks for your great service and thanks for staying strong in the face of fascism. Kudos!

I think that Secretary Rice’s time in the Bush administration showed her to be an incompetent administrator and a person of weak moral character. But if Dropbox thinks she can make them some money, then they should hire her, because that’s how business works.

And to increase the international appeal even further…i guess you will invite Vlad Putin next?

“experience and insight into torture and killing of innocents.”… that sounds like a definition of an abortion on demand Democrat politician.

It’s not “blah blah obama” to point out that President Obama has continued and expanded upon the exact same policies Condoleezza Rice is being harangued for (and labeled a “war criminal” — wut?!). There are plenty of us who don’t hate Obama and, oh, btw, also don’t hate Rice. We’re kind of stuck in the middle here with all this raging, irrational hatred spinning around. And yes, right now, most of it is directed toward dropbox and Rice. Everyone needs to calm down and get a little rational.

I’m glad there’s so many competitors now. F*** Dropbox. They’re done.

Looks like this will make people Drop their .. Box ?

Telling how the majority of opponents to this appointment present reasoned arguments for their opposition whilst the majority of supporters resort to ad hominem attacks on the opponents. I’ve seen few supporters present reasoned arguments why Ms. Rice’s track record of unfettered government surveillance should be overlooked.

I’m a longtime paid subscriber, a recent Mailbox.app user, and until this moment was overwhelmingly satisfied with both. But with Ms. Rice on the board I will transition off of Dropbox to a competing service and abandon Mailbox.app.

You cannot be for transparency and for Dr. Rice, they are complete contradictions.

It’s not a left vs. right issue. It’s a war criminal issue. Condoleezza Rice has committed and been declared a war criminal. If Barack Obama is declared a war criminal at any point and joins the board of a company I would refuse business with that company as well. It seems that you are saying that people support war criminals based on their political leanings. No, and that’s disgusting.

BTW, the use of drones has not been declared illegal. If a drone had been used on Saddam Hussein, we might not have so many dead or wounded soldiers today. Support the troops not your ideology.

Ah yes, the liberal intolerance brigade trying to silence anyone who may disagree with their views. Unless of course you are willing to vote for Obama in 2008 when he was against gay marriage but demand Mozilla remove CEO for being against gay marriage. Liberals are such freaking hypocrites.

Well, if there’s anything Dr. Rice is an expert in, it’s expanding into other countries.

“she brings an incredible amount of experience and insight” – in supporting spying & torture. No thanks.

I’m disappointed in your choice of Rice as a board member and have deleted my account. In my personal and humble view, one should not choose a board member who has actively supported policies of torture, invasions of privacy and violations of human rights. For the benefit of the peanut gallery in attendance, this isn’t a left or right based choice. It’s a decision by a consumer not to buy a product. This is how the free market works, yes?

You are honored to have a liar, warmonger and supporter of torture join your board. Logically that means you support the same “values”. Nothing more to say.

LOL worst comment ever.

Geez, I don’t remember Dr. Rice ordering the droning of American citizens, nor having a “kill list” of other American citizens — nor promising “flexibility” to Putin after an election. You don’t give a sh*t about war, just who wages it when it suits you fascist agenda. Or maybe you just hate successful black women….

The height of hypocrisy is on full display. Don’t like the selection by Dropbox for political reasons? I wait with baited breath for you to turn in your iPhone, cancel your iCloud account and renounce your iTunes subscription. Al Gore would be impressed.

This is not good Dropbox.

Good. Leave. And while you’re at it, give up your iPhone to make a statement to Al Gore to step down from Apple’s board. Reasoned argument enough?

You mad, bro?

No amount of entirely emotional upvotes to your comment in what’s immediately a cesspool of leftist groupthink will give merit to your wildly exaggerated if not entirely false claims.

You hate Bush.

She served her country, in part, within his Administration.

Try to pull yourself together.

Dr. Rice is an excellent addition to the already-great Dropbox team.

Besides, your efforts are weak. When conservatives responded to Mozilla, they racked up no less than 5K negative comments every day for several days. It’s 8 hours deep on launch day and this entire page (good and bad) only has 500. From a business standpoint, had Dropbox dropped Dr. Rice, the roar from very real conservative consumers would’ve dwarfed the now-familiar leftist whisper of “Wolf.”

And be careful: A lesser consumer and/or politically-interested party might accuse you of being racist for, y’know, not treating someone differently because of their skin color. (We’re looking at you, Democrats who can’t fathom opposition to Obama w/out assuming it’s racist!)

It’s not a left vs. right issue. It’s a war criminal issue. Condoleezza Rice has committed war crimes and been declared a war criminal. If Barack Obama was at some point declared a war criminal, and he joined the board of a company, I would refuse to do business with them as well. It seems that you are saying that people support war criminals based on their political leanings. No, and that is disgusting.

BTW, the use of drones has not been declared illegal. If we had used a drone strike on Saddam Hussein we might not have so many dead or wounded soldiers today. Support the troops not your ideology.

“As we continue to expand into new countries, we need that type of insight to help us reach new users and defend their rights.”

Oh you…

Right!?

These thought-anarchist leftists are really getting out of control!

But congrats to Dropbox on the excellent addition to their already-excellent team! And all the best for lots of happiness and success to Dr. Rice!

m/,

Its time to close Dropbox account. Dropbox belongs to big Brother NOW.

I JUST CLOSED MINE. No more Freedom..big bro is watching U even on Dropbox…

now you lost 1 paid user from Russia, bye

I moved all my data from Dropbox to Copy.

Join Copy.com its much better now https://copy.com?r=xQgc0w

We’ve seen examples of her work and it’s hard to see what expertise she brings to a tech company like DropBox. This issue has accelerated my efforts to get a cloud services instance (ownCloud) running so thanks for that.

Thank you for not caving in to the bullies who claim to love tolerance but only tolerate that with which they agree. I will continue to use (and love!) DropBox. You’ve made a good choice in Ms. Rice!

A key figure in the passage of the patriot act watching over your data is hardly “politics”….

It’s fishy. That’s what it is.

The lack of business acumen and common sense informing this decision is surprising. Not good.

I closed My DropBox Account!

In protest for appointing Condoleezza Rice to the board of technology firm Dropbox.

SHE IS SOMEONE WHO violated OUR “Constitutional rights” .

Drop Box, R u joining Big Brother?

Drop her.

Yup. She sure knows about expanding into other countries.

Dropbox do you not get it? We don’t want someone who doesn’t give a damn about data privacy to be anywhere near our data.

Thanks for making my decision to “drop” you so much easier.

What a horrid, stupid business decision.

Drop Box Decision was a disrespect to their customers…Drop box bad idea!

I’ve just dropped my support for Dropbox as well. What an incredibly stupid blunder, appointing Ms. Rice to your board. Good bye!

Sure Rice may have contributed to ‘torture’ of few particular people in far away lands, but are the opponents willing to drop Apple or Nike for having a borderline ‘slave’ labor overseas workforce? Of course you are willing to shut your eyes to such evils since their suffering is worth the ‘cheap’ iphone or cool shoe, but when your First World Problems are violated, you cry wolf.

No. I like Al Gore. I find Ms. Rice a great deal more frightening. Now go back to your hypocrisy-free life and feel good about yourself. I’m feeling fine about my decision.

So are “Trents”

Maybe you’re a paid commentator as well. Let’s ask Ms. Rice. She probably knows.

Ah, my very favorite troll/anti-troll comment. Well done.

You’re the one that seems to need to calm down. Why not just let it go?

I’m sad to say that appointing Dr. Rice to your board has forced me to no longer use Dropbox, which is a quality product which I have enjoyed using for years. Fortunately every day we have more and more choices in choosing where we store our data and the alternatives will suit my purposes just fine. I just cannot in good conscience support a company who would align themselves with a person whose actions are directly responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

So, we have no accountability for our actions and past behavior? Just curious.

Dr. Rice was one of the WORST Provost’s we had at Stanford. Her bad decisions there easily predicted the disastrous decisions she would make later in the Bush administrations.

She’s a disgrace to this nation and DropBox should drop this hero worship social climbing act they are attempting by adding her to their Board.

In the near future Dropbox will wonder what happened, why they have went under, and they can look back to this very moment and their denial of what their consumers have said. If you ignore your customers, they will go elsewhere. Dropbox can go join MySpace.

I don’t want anyone associated with the State Department on board or anywhere near the data, thank you. “Expanding into new countries” they know about, but not in the way I find acceptable.

Hey Dropbox! Guess what, you’ve been swallowed by the System where the name of the game is called “Greed”!

Well, I’m gone!

James S. Just for the record, spying on our allies is hardly a great offense. They spy on us, we spy on them. If this is the basis of your disappointment you should think on how allies can sometimes become enemies and we have a duty to our citizens, not foreigners privacy. (That said, getting caught is bad form)

Thanks for putting fascism on your Board you mean.

Are you going to drop Apple, Nike?
As an American, do you share some blame for the ‘death of hundreds of thousands of civilians’? The gas you buy, where does it come from? Who picks your produce. My point is, that given that this world is very interconnected, we ALL share blame for worlds problems, and as energy hogging Americans maybe a little more.

Wow. Just wow. After all the Snowden revelations, the international community is now leery of any US-based cloud service. And you think having Dr. Rice on your board is going to HELP?! You do remember she was national security advisor to the president when major privacy abuses were taking place. Or maybe you don’t remember. I’m speechless in any case.

And these privacy abuses continue under a different political party! Shocking!

Do we all share the same level of blame, though? To wit, holding individuals accountable for their actions in perpetuating the world’s problems may be one of the few ways we can effect change, eh?

How stunningly tone-deaf and short-sighted your management team is. I will be deleting my account immediately and moving it to one of the many services providing equivalent funcionality, and one that does not employ one of the architects and most unapologetic promoters of the post-9/11 surveillance state. I will be encouraging all of my friends to do the same also.

Good bye! One Ireland user who will be clearing out and closing Dropbox account today. Very strange move from a company who stores and “protects” people’s data.

Hello Condoleezza Rice goodbye DropBox.

… because the Obama administration is doing so much to protect our privacy (sarcasm). They have extended the Bush era surveillance apparatus.

Bravo Dropbox! I applaud your decision not to bow down to liberal nonsense. Dr. Rice will be an asset to you and further my respect for your company.

I had just started seriously using dropbox because my free Google drive was full. I’d rather pay Google 2 dollars a month until I install my own cloud platform. I’d rather not support a business which willingly employs a liar who ruined lives and wasted our tax money, let alone trust any of my data with them.

I just installed the windows desktop client (and I must say it’s pretty impressive, as I was only using it for linux and phone backups so far) and my data is syncing/downloading. As soon as all of it is here on my drive, I’m saying adios to my 25GB storage. Thank you dropbox for the service so far, but I cannot stand by you anymore.

No argument there, but that does not mean I should encourage such behavior by continuing my (up until now happy) relationship with Dropbox. Years of trust broken. Gone. Forever,

To answer your question: Absolutely. And my guess is that if you had the opportunity to spend even an unfiltered day with Condi let alone a lifetime, you’d be celebrating this decision with the apolitically-charged principles and consumers around it.

Beyond that, it’s recently been brought to your attention (I would think) that over the last few years virtually every communication through every channel on every device is subject to government scrutiny. If you think you know every breach of privacy the citizenry have incurred throughout the history of the government, well, respectfully…I think you’d be wrong. It’s a cesspool of intrusion, was long before Condi, and will be long after. And there’s unfortunately a very real debate around that; one that has me personally leaning with the privacy wonks more toward liberty than security. (Still, like so many Americans, I admittedly have the good fortune of never having been personally affected by war or terror, and am not yet done listening to the other side of the debate.)

From my seat, of all the past intelligence officials who have undoubtedly gone on to make great contributions to the private sector’s own privacy and security efforts, Dr. Rice is as and likely far more qualified.

I’d like to ask you a sincere question: What exactly are you concerned she will do in this role to hurt you or your privacy in any way?

This is Dropbox’s MySpace moment.

I never saved anything on OneDrive or Google Drive before. Now I think I will check them out. They do everything Dropbox does anyway, and they are already on my computer and phone. Time to start moving those files.

I apologies for stereo-typically categorizing you.
I however think that the opposition is blowing the issue out of proportion. Our digital privacy is trespassed much more than we think and we give into it through apps and social media.

Yah, I’m not sure where the war criminal remarks come from. Even the most liberal reading of such international laws wouldn’t throw her into that category (Advisor means just that; she advised, she did not have operational control).

As for not being the head of the NSA – she most certainly would or should have been aware of their efforts to spy on Americans and remaining was tacit approval of those tactics. She knew, she stayed, she supported it.

Which architect of the surveillance state has Apple employed? We’re waiting eagerly for you to enlighten us.

Couldn’t come up with your own words, so you had to use Mark Ruffalo’s? Pathetic.

Comical that so many people are canceling… I bet half of them are using the service for free anyway. Good for y’all not letting the left bully you.

Keep her or lose me.

Everyone knows why these people are cancelling their accounts, it’s because they are racist and can’t stand to see a black woman in power. We all know Fascist, warmonger, and Nazi are code words for the n-word, c***, and uncle tom. Just admit you hate Rice because she’s black and a woman!

why would you have a war criminal on your corporate board – who exactly are you trying to impress with this?

Oh, I think that’s what this Dropbox response lacks and is much more difficult to respond to; it’s not the concern for privacy, it is her judgment, it is her as a symbol.

Do I think it is feasible that she would support policies that require secretly complying with National Security Letters instead of fighting those in court? Yes. Do I think it possible she could discourage Dropbox from interfering with or objecting to Government surveillance. Yes. But do I really believe those things are likely? Nah.

No, like most people on this thread I think the real issue is personal. We want a higher ideal, promoting someone who’s loyalty remained doggedly with the man who *did* unquestionably take some drastic steps seems like poor judgment.

I’m personally undecided but I do see the concerns and justifications. Are her business acumen and connections worth the connections she brings to judgments that harmed so many?

I think Dropbox has raised like $1B dollars and never turned close to a profit. Now they are spending major $’s on a board member like Miss Rice? I used to think of them as a cool start up, creating good products. Now I think I realize that they are a HUGE company, making bad decisions and taking Billions of investments without any projection to make a profit. Kind of like the US Government ironically. Facts are that your data on Dropbox is not your own and can be used against you in litigation. Private Cloud is the only option and I plan to seek one out immediately. Goodbye Dropbox – canceling my account tonight.

I’ll believe CORPORATIONS are PEOPLE when Texas EXECUTES one !!!! Same goes for DROPBOX.

Aaaand done. Downloaded all my data, uninstalled the desktop client, deleted my dropbox account.

This has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative or left or right. This is about not letting career politicians who have no ethics or honesty run companies that have a lot of control over people’s private data. These people have no place in the technology industry. I lean center on political issues and would have deleted my account regardless of the person being in the other party (for example, Feinstein).

I was using it for free so far, but free users turn into paying users once they like the service and features and have too much data saved somewhere. Most people would choose to pay rather than find someplace else to store 25GB of data (I was nowhere close to that so it was much easier to download all my data). Now Google is going to get my money because I have only about 0.2GB left of free Google drive space.

After the Mozilla fiasco and the recent incidents that brought privacy and people’s rights to public attention, you’d think companies would learn.

The double-down on Rice is incredible. What an aloof, arrogant, and tone-deaf management team this is. Unless swiftly corrected, this is the beginning of the end for a once-promising company.

Dr. Rice was instrumental in orchestrating a war that didn’t need to happen. She lied to the US people and wasted tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars. I can no longer support you as a company. Great product, but your appointment of Dr. Rice is offensive to me as a consumer.

Unless you reverse course, I will be moving my personal account to Box by the end of next week and will be pressuring my company to do the same.

Couldn’t agree with you more. They were one of the first well-received companies in this space and it’s sad to see them do this. But once someone leaves, it’s extremely hard to bring them back. I deleted my account and already decided to go with another company, and I wouldn’t go back to dropbox even if they got rid of politicians and offered me 50GB of free space.

Sorry to ruin your life, but…..

While Condi Rice is long retired from politics, your Drop-Box alternative, Google, is giving thousands of dollars to right-wingers like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz Heck, they just donated $2500 to Cruz – even though he isn’t up for election until 2018!

Haters gonna hate

And of course there ARE companies that give 50GB of free space and every bit of the same functionality as Dropbox. I have had 50GB free on Box.com for months but didn’t use it before. I am checking it out now as I move my files there and to OneDrive.

I don’t think so. I think things would have been even worse if they’d put in Alexander, or Cheney, or (gasp!) Bush.

You’re just pulling a tried and true bogeyman to distract.

Nice try, Dropbox PR person. Please tell your paymasters to give it up.

Well said. The ones who scream “racism” or “sexism” are usually the trolls who really are racist or sexist when it comes to everything else.

What a bad decision

Hire a war criminal and you will have a bad time.

Goodbye dropbox, hello bittorrent sync!

“Liberal nonsense”?

Switch “Dropbox” for “NRA” and “Rice” for “Gore” and you’ll maybe understand the actual gravity of what is going on here. Either that or you’re just a really sad sock puppet account.

umm… don’t confuse the Mozilla issue with this. That was the public skewering someone for exercising his free speech rights. Not a proud moment for “public pressure” — no one seems to have the Voltaire spirit anymore (you know, the apocryphal “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” thing?).

Rice is a very different story. In any sensible person’s mind (i.e., people who don’t watch Fox News I guess!) she is complicit (along with several others) in tens of thousands of deaths, whether by acts of omission or commission.

A far cry from donating to a proposition being voted on, even if I find the proposition itself somewhat distasteful.

It’s not the color of her skin but the fact that she’s a conservative. Both parties endorsed the war. Both parties endorsed the patriot act (for that matter members of both parties opposed both actions). Both parties have violated the public trust with regard to privacy and security. It comes down to ideology and the idea that anyone who isn’t a Democrat is obviously evil. It isn’t racism and it isn’t about race. It’s about trying to hate people into behaving a certain way.

As a developer who uses Dropbox exclusively as cloud storage, I am horrified by the news. I can’t believe it’s happening. I can’t believe the good people behind an excellent product actually made such a bad judgement call. It scares the hell out of people.

Please turn her somewhere else before more damage is done to Dropbox’ reputation.

Once the freeloaders are gone we’ll see what the earnings potential for Dropbox actually is. This is a healthy shake out of dead weight.

I for one welcome our new data gathering overlord. HAIL BIG BROTHER.

having said that, I must say yours is the most cogent objection I have read on this. This indeed has nothing to do with politics per se; it’s about the wrongness of involving politicians in business at all. Well said.

Condi never had any cred with thinking people, but Pearl Jam did- and it’s now severely compromised. When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

I agree with you. Even though I don’t hold the same views as Mozilla’s ex-CEO, I thought it was overblown that the company made him step down for his views.

I just mentioned it as an example of something far less damaging which resulted in huge response and negative publicity to the company. If that can cause so much backlash, what were these guys thinking when they decided to appoint a career politician who has no regard for the truth or for human life?

“help us reach new users and defend their rights” You are saying one thing and doing the complete opposite… We all know her stance on privacy and human rights.

I object to the poor judgment shown by this appointment. I had been anticipating the forthcoming IPO as an investment. I will no longer do so. The internet community is a community, and Dr. Rice has participated in actions which are counter to the values I wish for that community.

GOODBYE DROP BOX…!

So you put one of W’s “vulcans” on the Board. Someone responsible in many ways for the formation and current condition of the Department of Homeland Security, and for inflicting the Patriot Act upon us all. I don’t care what color or creed Dr. Rice is, her very close association with the worst US President to have ever held office is what I object to, and I consider her mere presence to be sufficient influence to render Dropbox a totally unreliable product for safeguarding my shoe size, much less something more important.

I do Internet and Computer Security for a living. I’ve pulled my files, uninstalled the desktop software, and will do so with my other instances. I intend to encourage everyone I have influence with to do the same. Dropbox is no longer a viable tool from my viewpoint.

Goodbye.

Account canceled.

Data moved. Account deleted.

I’ve seen this argument a lot in these discussions and it makes no sense to me. Yes, the current administration might be just as bad. Does that make the actions of everyone else ok? There is allowed to be more than one person that did bad things, and we’re allowed to be against all of them.

And the sarcasm of your comment added zero to the discussion. Putting a fox inside the hen house because you heard that there was a wolf already wandering the property is still a stupid move.

Account cancelled, software uninstalled.

I support and applaud that DropBox is not caving into the haters of Dr. Rice. It must be racism, since that always seems to be THEIR assertion when anyone criticizes a liberal of color–now the shoe’s on the other foot.

The subject is Dr. Rice, her association with George W. Bush, the horrific Patriot Act, and the fact that she will be a magnet for the same approach to our privacy. Focus on this company, not the others. Your red herring isn’t useful.

I’m not American, I don’t care about your politics. Show me a white person from the other side who’s done the same things and I would have a problem with them being appointed to Dropbox’s board.

shame on you…. data moved, account soon canceled

I support Dr. Rice appointment and applaud your continued support. Quite in contrast to the Mozilla fiasco.

What you say is true, but calling the libs racist (and yes many of the actually are), is a “back at ya.” Every time a liberal of color is criticized, the left screams racism. Meanwhile, those like Dr Rice, Rep Allen West, etc. are called all kinds
of vile names because they dare to be conservative and black. So those on the left deserve some payback.

Already dropped both, won’t touch their products. Not everyone is as shallow as you’re portraying.

Hello, I’ve just deleted my mailbox app and I am in the process of deleting all my Dropbox files and close the account, your can defend as much as you want Condolezza, one of the more despicable political figures of the century, I really hope you re-consider.

Yours

How typical of the left–try to intimidate a business, just like they shout down speakers to keep others from hearing a view that conflicts with theirs.

Deleted account.

I doubt you “know what she’s done”; just what the leftist haters claim she did. When you’re conservative AND black, you get a special kind of hatred from the left because you’re betraying your race in their mind.

It’s typical of the supporters of any party of any affiliation anywhere in the world. However, you’ll find a lot of people aren’t American and don’t care about your concepts of left and right, nor do they care which end of the imaginary line the woman in question put herself. Given your multiple posts that add nothing to the conversation it doesn’t appear you’re actually interested in discussing any of this though.

Deleted! Cannot support war criminals!

Unless the “leftist haters” are in exclusive control of Wikipedia and other such information sources, the information is out there and freely available.

You put a war criminal on your company’s board? For shame.

Most large corporations donate to both sides of the political spectrum, so whichever candidate wins, they end up on the “winning” side. But this will be much to do about nothing. A bunch of people using free accounts will get huffy and pull their files off. Big deal.

Just deleted everything. Will not support appointment of war criminals.

Moving account… deleting Firefox, keeping Dropbox. Thank you for making business decisions based on business, not politics. In the future, I will Google every single board member on each stock proxy and vote against ANY leftist board member. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Vote a few liberal board members off and the tune may change.

This is crazy. I’m not American, and I can’t understand why you guys are so obsessed with this concept of left versus right, to the extent that any issue involving any political figure can only ever be about left versus right. I have very little idea what the American concept of left or right is, but I am able to do the required reading to see that Rice is not someone I would want on the board of a company that claims the privacy of their users is a primary concern. I couldn’t care less about your parties, I care that the person has done these things.

If you care about real privacy, why not implement client side encryption with user-generated keys like Wuala, Crashplan or SpiderOak do? It’s absolutely transparent to the user, and it provides real, technology-based privacy, as opposed to ‘pinky swear’, policy-based privacy.

What a BS artist you are. Are you seriously putting Rice forward as a paragon of human rights and claiming that any criticism of her record is racism? You think her utterly unfounded fear-mongering about smoking guns and mushroom clouds in Iraq should just be forgotten? The lost lives and limbs of our men and women are her legacy. How disgusting.

I’m going to switch the company over to an alternative system. Condelezza Rice should be breaking rocks on a chain gang, not sitting in corporate boards.

This is a valid argument, but Dropbox’s idea of the service doesn’t quite match what you’re looking for. They’re aiming more towards the “convenience” side of the scale in return for potentially less privacy. In fact, I know someone that has to use the web interface on a regular basis, which isn’t possible with schemes like SpiderOak’s one (unless I missed something).

To be completely honest, if you’re storing something that you’re worried about someone else seeing then you shouldn’t be throwing it into the cloud and hoping. A self-hosted solution such as OwnCloud might be more appropriate. You retain control over the storage of the data and it’s open source so you can confirm that it’s not leaking information to anyone else.

Just check Google and see for yourself what she’s done. Read Stupid White Men written by Michael Moore. Then make up your mind.

Politics? You idiot, this is about deeds. She’s not a criminal because of her politcal beliefs, but because of her ACTIONS. Seriously, you care more about your ‘left-right paradigm than about how many men, women and children this woman helped to kill? Get a grip

Deleted account.

You do not need her.

So you’re okay with someone who authorized and supported warrant-less wiretaps in a company that cares about privacy? Because I’m not.

Wikipedia is a pretty lame excuse for any serious research–especially political. But what it boils down to is there is a nameless person with a drop dropbox blog (oh wow, so clever), who is very obviously left bias, despite trying to claim that this isn’t about her being a Republican and Bush appointee. Then goes on to point out the very things that show the blogger DOES hate her because she’s Republican and a Bush appointee. And OMG she was on the board of Chevron! Shock! Horror! The entire page is a diatribe because they hate the Iraq war, water boarding, wire taps (a program that has been seriously expanded beyond their original limitations by THIS administration) and oil companies.

Dr. Rice is a single board member (and she serves on more than one company board) and yet people are blowing this up like she’s going to have some extreme power (or desire) to snoop on your files. What she will bring is a plethora of global knowledge on international markets. Which DB apparently needs. Mozilla already proven they can cut off their nose to spite their face. I’m glad to see DB is not doing so because of a few whiners.

OMG, Michael Moore is a freaking communist who thinks Castro has it right. He thinks Obama isn’t far left enough. Give me a break!

Drop her asap OR WE DROP YOU!

Just deleted your software and moved my data. I regret ever giving you a dime of my money. I had friends die in the Iraq War over the lies this spineless shill perpetuated. Think about the statement you are making. Absolutely disgusting.

Or not. Free service users are free advertising. Free service users grew the company to the place it is now, and did it heavily on goodwill.

If you are that worried about your business data, you shouldn’t put sensitive data on the web AT ALL. Anywhere.

I agree that there is a tradeoff between privacy and convenience, but as a user of both SpiderOak and Dropbox, I think the former gives much more than the latter in terms of privacy, and takes away very little (although not zero) in terms of convenience. Of course, everybody has different needs, and what works for me might not work for someone else (for instance, I don’t need the web interface, not in a regular basis anyway, but some people might depend on it).

That being said, I don’t think demanding real privacy has anything to do with how sensitive your data is. If I had really sensitive data I would not store it in the cloud, as you suggest, not even through SpiderOak. But I want even my non-sensitive data stored away from prying eyes, including those of the company itself. All our data should be really private, not just policy-based private, as a matter of principle, regardless of how sensitive or trivial it might be. And I believe the technology to make real privacy and convenience happen at the same is there. It’s just a matter of the companies willing to make it happen.

No. It was an exaggeration, of course. But I’ve now removed the “possibly” and added a “one of” which is definitely the case.

Just shows how you think about privacy.

What a silly move. Even if C. Rice’s expertise is so valuable for your company, you don’t have to be a genius to predict how others will see this.
Bye bye Dropbox, hello btsync.

You’re right about the Drop Dropbox site – I can’t verify the intentions of the person who created it or the accuracy of the information. It does form a good jumping-off point for fact checking though. Scan through the list, see what that person says, and then cross-check with other sources. You can’t trust any single source of information regardless of which side of the argument you’re on (for any argument).

I would say that Wikipedia is a better information source than people make it out to be though (honestly, most of the opposition to Wikipedia as a source of good information seems to come from conspiracy theorists who think it’s set up specifically to oppress them). You just have to make sure to check the Talk page and the recent history for an article before believing the contents. If there’s any controversy about the accuracy of information it’s usually flagged up through one of those (either directly discussed or the subject of an edit-war). And again – cross-check with other sources. Never trust a single source.

Oh, and just to be on topic a bit – the things she did aren’t a matter of opinion; they’re simple fact. Wikipedia is an okay source for that. Whether you agree with them or not or whether you think they’ll impact her role at Dropbox *is* opinion. No information source in the world can tell you what to think there.

Adios.

It’s distressing that liberals once known as advocates of open debate, tolerance and diversity have become shrill leftists demanding ideological conformity everywhere in society. (And never mind the bizarre fetish WHITE “progressives” have with harassing BLACK conservatives, especially women.) Thanks, Dropbox, for embracing diversity and not caving to group think.

It’s not about privacy, it’s about morality.

This has nothing to do with race or gender, as anyone with half a brain knows. It is about one of the architects of the post 9.11 surveillance state being hired to the board of a company that claims to protect the privacy of our personal data. Please give it up with this BS claim that liberals are out to get black women. Freaking absurd.

It’s not just the privacy issue. Really.

Thank you, Dropbox – I think that Dr. Rice will be an excellent addition to your board, and I look forward to your company’s continued growth.

I said “never mind” the fetish with “harassing” (should have said, more to the point, “de-legitimizing”) black conservatives. But see; thou doth protest too much!

So, really, the fact that anyone at DropBox could have even for a moment considered a war criminal like Condi Rice for the board of directors is stunning, and says everything that needs to be said. So long.

Of course. Her long record of bad decisions, intellectual dishonesty, and moral failures will, no doubt, serve the company well.

I am afraid, you have not understood very much. Maybe voting with money is the only thing you understand. I am searching for a Dropbox replacement (not too difficult these days btw.)

Your Logical Fallacy Is: Strawman
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

I’ll keep it simple for you: Dr. Rice is a very very very bad woman and she did very very very bad things to many people and the world!
You don’t hire such bad people!

Your Logical Fallacy Is: Tu Quoque
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

…with a touch of ad hominem; thank you for reinforcing one of my original points!

I make the non-partisan argument that Ms. Rice’s history of supporting unfettered government surveillance makes her an exceedingly bad choice as a board member for Dropbox.

You have yet to make a proper counter argument.

Your Logical Fallacy Is: Tu Quoque
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

In case you’re unfamiliar or don’t follow the link, the fallacy is also known as “appeal to hypocrisy.”

So, no, not a reasoned argument. You’ve made no counter argument to why someone with a track record of unfettered government surveillance is a poor choice as a board member for a company in which we entrust our files and data.

Sorry. You’re entitled to your own view of morality. I am entitled to mine. I consider Dr. Rice to be a war criminal, together with other members of the administration she served under. As things are, it is unacceptable for me to financially uphold a company which hires and praises such an individual. As I write, I’m moving my 100 GB account to Google Drive. I love your product, but this will be all.

I commit, that if this woman remains affiliated with Dropbox, I will share this information with everyone I know in the Middle East. And encourage them to drop DropBox. She is a direct cause to hundred of thousands of deaths in Iraq and the displacement of millions.

Bye bye Dropbox!, Data Moved, Account Deleted.

Simple question: would you hire someone who is known to be lying publicly as – let’s say – a PR person. If so – good luck on your journey. If not – remove her immediately.

I work in IT in the networking and security fields. I deleted both my Dropbox accounts, the personal and the business ones, I will also be advising all my friends and customers to move to other services. The dilemma of finding an alternative service which is not in bed with the government (whether willingly or through National Security Letter coercion) is a real one. For customers with sensitive data, I am investigating 3rd party solutions with more transparent security.

However, a data-hosting company hiring any of the architects of the surveillance state, whether Democrat or Republican, left or right, just doesn’t make sense to me. For many people, your decision to hire Dr. Rice crystallized the once vague idea that you have no idea what your customers expect from you with regards to privacy. You have made questionable changes to your terms of service in the past (e.g. all-your-data-belong-to-us type statements), thus you already had a somewhat questionable track record. This is the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I would be doing the same had you hired Mr. Obama to your board, or any of the other state actors perpetuating this assault on everyone, all supposedly in the name of security.

Why would an ex Secretary of State pick such a position among all much more fancy and prestigious offers? A genuine and personal interest to protect and facilitate my personal access to my documents from anywhere – and to share them only with the ones I decide? A lot of people can easily find more nasty and probable reasons. Convince us we are wrong, Dropbox and Condolezza!

People like you lost that argument years ago, pal. It’s done. There’s a reason why Blair, Bush, Rice and all the other sociopaths that started that war are regarded as pariahs and scum. Maybe you are too if you are apologising for them.

Nonsense. IRAQ.

Another idiot whining about people exercising their freedom of speech just like Eich did.

Liked Dropbox used it for years. I know too many people with young ones that never came home from Iraq. Now that liar is going to have the balls to sit on its board?. Bye, Dropbox.

Sorry, guys, you really dropped the ball on this one. Goodbye, Dropbox!

Dropbox is an incredibly cool, easy to use service. But now, i see myself forced to delete my account. The reason? Dr. Rice is a deeply immoral person. I hold her (co-) responsible for starting an illegal war based on a big lie that resulted in 100’000+ dead people.

Yeah, I am sure you are champion for the rights of Blacks women. Tool.

Me too, deleted my subscription earlier, great service but I cannot support this woman financially. Sorry guys.

Work and home accounts deleted. I am not happy to have my online storage placed with a company that is overseen by one of the 21st centuries biggest warmongers. The United Nations sent out a very clear message that water boarding was universally considered torture – a fact that Dr Rice chose to ignore. I can not imagine how Dropbox can consider themselves to be ‘transparent’ by taking on someone who has shown blatant disregard for human rights. Shame on you.

We’re honored to have Dr. Rice join our board (…) as we continue to expand into new countries”
So your business expansion strategy is similar to launching imperialist wars?
Goodbye Dropbox, it was nice to know you. I’ll be moving all my data away today.

I’m happy to say I cancelled my Dropbox Pro 200 account because of Dr Rice’s appointment, so much for expanding into new markets, this appointment is helping you lose your existing market of loyal users.

As of monday, all dropbox accounts will have been terminated. So long and thanks for all the fish.

Good bye Drop box. This has gone too far.

You may think corporate power trumps customer loyalty. Remember Digg? Yeah, great place. Good times. I will remember you dear Dropbox.

There are no Dropbox installations in my home anymore. Even my calm, non-reactionary wife, upon hearing of Dr. Rice’s addition to the board, said immediately “we’re never using Dropbox again.”

Goodbye, Dropbox.

Thanks for reminding me that I need to stop using Dropbox.

Oh, sure… let’s hire Condy. Her key role in orchestrating one of the biggest global disaster of all time makes her a plum pick. (What could possibly go wrong?) Sayonara Dropbox!!!

I think that you’ve miss judged how much people distrust Dr. Condoleezza Rice and how much that distrust has now infected you. This is a huge mistake.

Time to stop using DropBox. To hell with you for having anything to do with that woman.

Transferring my files to Google Drive as we speak. This move may not significantly hurt your bottom line but it appears you are losing the thought leaders who embraced your wonderful tool and spread the word early. I cannot use a product, for many reasons, that I know Dr. Rice is involved with. Her record during the Bush years, among others, speaks for itself. Adios Dropbox!

Your board is a reflection of your values as a company. The board impacts your company values, and your company values reflect those you choose to sit on your board.

“she brings an incredible amount of experience and insight into international markets and the dynamics that define them”

she should have realised, then, that many international costumers only need a little extra push to stop doing business with easily replaced US companies…

Look, cloud computing is all about trust, it has to be. Dropbox has been hanging by a thread in that department for a while. Some of us well remember you pushing out untested code into production that allowed anyone to log into anyone else’s account with no password(!).

So my decision to “drop” dropbox is not only because of the appointment of Dr. Rice, that is simply the straw that broke the camels back. It does certainly put up a big neon sign that says “we now have deep top level connections to the NSA and national security interests”. That is a poison pill if ever there was one.

Wow, a lot of these comments are both racist and anti-woman. Disgusting!

Despite your commitments (which you jeopardize by bringing Rice on board), I’ll be damned if even one penny of my money ever goes to that villain’s pocket.

Subscription canceled. So sad, you have such a great product.

No issue with Dr. Rice’s appointment. I’ve been happy with Dropbox and it’s simplicity. I hope you don’t let a vocal minority drive your decisions.

I find it unfortunate that this blog post was even necessary. Looking forward to seeing the results of Dr. Rice’s appointment and the expertise and experience she brings to your Board. Got a good laugh from some of the comments below. Many surely are sarcastic because they are so ridiculous.

She has allowed corporate interests to sway her to accept torture. She has allowed corporate interests to sway her to accept deep lies to the American people. She has allowed corporate interests to sway her to corrupt the Constitution regarding privacy, search, and seizure. And you put her on the board? I cannot possibly trust your company or your ethics from this point on. Account deleted.

Could you please point out some examples for such racist and anti-women comments?

Dear dropbox,

Sad that you would like to associate yourself with such people.
I don’t.
Good bye.

Sincerely,
Chris

Bye Dropbbox, welcome OneDrive :)

Dear Dropbox, thank you for not drinking the Koolaid. I am a loyal, daily user of Dropbox and will continue to be one. Dr. Rice will be remembered in history for her fearless and brilliant leadership, and you will be on the right side of history with her.

Already canceled my DropBox account. Hello google Drive!

Vocal minority? Did you do a survey?

Oh well, DB was nice while it lasted.

However, having this war pig on the board is more than I can stomach.

I will be migrating to another service.

Wow Chris, way to debate!

Dear Dropbox, I too support you in your decision of Dr. Condoleeza Rice. I think she is brilliant and professional and will add much experience and insight to Company’s Board. I am a daily user and will continue to support Dropbox!

Goodbye Dropbox. You have finally reached my pain threshold.

Goodbye Dropbox

Wouldn’t worry about losing these leftist lapdogs. They should learn they can not run everything with their Marxist ideology.

With the appointment of Condoleezza Rice to the Board of Dropbox I got the last push I need to drop the service and cancelled my account.

i do love successful black woman, i do not like people who led the us into a war under false pretense, who outright lied and misled the people.

you have a very short memory about her key role as national security advisory in the lead up to the war in iraq.

my condemnation of rice does not automatically mean i agree with obama’s actions.

Riiight.

Left and right in the USA is pretty hard if you don’t live there. In Europe the US Democrats would be seen as a party on the political right. This would put the reps close the extreme rights.

A lot of the voters do not see themselves as voters; they regard themselves Republicans or Democrats. I guess this makes it really easy to turn the world into Good and Evil, or as GWB put it: you are either with us, or with the terrorists (https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/black-or-white).

I already dropped my box.

Really? You think the parents of soldiers vote in lockstep with you far leftists. You, of course, are a liar and wrong.

Let “the money do the talking”, or “let the market figure it out”, are normally seen as right-winged arguments.

Guess that makes you a flip-flopper.

Um, no you wouldn’t, lefty.

How laughable is it, that a company that claims to fight for your privacy hires one of the people responsible for the massive violations of privacy rights that they claim to protect you from? Let’s not forget- Condoleezza Rice is one of the people directly responsible for the Iraq war. So she is not just a criminal but a war-criminal and the only difference between her and regular criminals is that she has friends in high places.

Nice picture of your mother.

You make it sound as being left is something bad.

Just remember there is no right wing without a left one.

don’t care done using dropbox enjoy committing business suicide idiots

quoting from some one below “How laughable is it, that a company that claims to fight for your
privacy hires one of the people responsible for the massive violations
of privacy rights that they claim to protect you from?”

I’ll start searching for alternative now. not sure who has the idea of appointing Rice to a technology company! now I am worried about your decisions!

I judge people by what they do.

You seem to notice Rice is black.

Why does that make me a racist?

keep dreamin. if thats what it takes for you to get to sleep at night keep at it. you drank the koolaid already, we can tell. Condi Rice championed illlegal spying and illegal torture, what part of illegal dont you you understand?

If you really think that Mrs. Rice was hired for her expertise and experience then you shouldn’t use the word intelligence when referring to yourself. Not even as a nickname. Never.

So, you would prefer a company that buckles when some leftists breath heavy? That company would really work hard to maintain your privacy and protect your data.

How about Dropbox’s stance on illegal torturing? Would that change, with Ms. Rice on board?

You know what you really want to call her.

How many people pay for their facebook account?

Why does Dropbox need a War Criminal to further it’s corporate goals?

Why not the Westboro baptist church for moral direction too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/condoleezza-rice-rutgers_n_4980826.html

http://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/03/misguided-honor-for-condi-rice/

https://www.box.com/home/

I am just in the process of cancelling my Dropbox account – and I will be advising anyone I know who has one to do the same…the appointment of Rice is just a ridiculous move…either they were somehow coerced into it, or the directors have absolutely lost the plot.

I also find it unfortunate this is necessary. In today’s climate of the government spying on everyone I feel I should not have to roll over and accept it. I have dropped Dropbox. The product is great but with importaint documents containing personal information stored on the service combined with past issues with privacy the appointment of Rice to the board really feels like pouring salt in a wound. I do not trust Rice, did not trust her and will not trust her. Dropbox, a company that sells trust essentially made a poor choice by ap[pointing Rice to the board. Some users are hee to bitch, some to discuss what has happened, some just to voice an opinion, like me. My opinion is Dropbox is not a trustworthy company and I do not wish to do business with them.

↑Rocket surgeon, that one is.

Yes, just like appointing Hitler. Drama queen.

Doubt you were a client. Given that all of these companies assist governments in gathering info, you wouldn’t even be on the internet.

Oh, the vapors.

I see that the “tolerant left” has brought out their pitchforks again. Keep it up proggies, your remarks only validates your ugliness.

I thought it was your mother’s picture stolen from your Dropbox folder.

Well, Chris is speaking truthfully.

I am a paying customer and now it is a time to change..

I am seeting also box.com and onedrive.com

not sure which one shall I move to?

The kurds stand with you against that warmonger. Viva Saddam.

In their minds, you know what they are calling her and what ‘N’ word they wish they could use.

No, no you didn’t. Liar.

You’re not really helping your cause here. People are providing valid arguments as to why Rice is not a good choice for a company in Dropbox’s position. Meanwhile, people like you on the opposite side of the argument are just throwing insults around. Sure, there’s some people that are fine with Rice’s appointment, and their position is just as valid as those who believe it is wrong. Your position is “how many political buzzwords can I fit into a sentence or two?”.

Not that you care, but you do have to remember that a lot of people are not American and couldn’t care less about your ideas of left or right or proggies (whatever that means).

You mean like the Kurds?

Yep. I’m searching for other solutions and am advising all of my friends to do so as well. Please remove Rice from the board and I will continue using your product.

So, are you with the terrorists?

Hmmm, is that a court finding or your personal obsession?

Yup, I’m giving up my dropbox account too … She got blood on her hands!

Apple and Nike do not have the US Army to invade another country. They did not lie about weapons of mass destruction. We are talking a different league here.

You better get off the internet as well. All of these companies are stooges for the government-you do know that, right, lefty?

Pariahs and scum? Where? In your left wing chat rooms? In the Europe where Islamists can saw a guy’s head off in broad daylight with everyone else just standing around?

I love Capitalism. I can make influentual decisions just by watching where i spend my money. And today i’m deciding that i am not spending any money on a company that employs a war criminal.

You better get off the internet then. All the companies cooperate with the governments where they operate.

But you know you want to call her the N word.

Yes, absolutely horrific.

Yeah, “Dr. Rice understands our stance on these issues and fully supports our commitments to our users.” Just like she “understood” and “fully supported” the US Constitution and rule of law which she took an oath to uphold.

The only international experience Condoleeza Rice should have next is a nice foreign trip to a country that will arrest her as a war criminal and haul her up either under Universal Jurisdiction in that country, or drag her to the Hague to be tried in the International Criminal Court.

So, you would prefer a company that folds if a bunch of internet pussies attack it?

Judging from your comment being left means: being able to have an opinion and being able to present arguments.

I have read through an enormous amount of posts here and nobody said they are leaving dropbox because Condi is on the right side of the spectrum. Everybody talks about her actions.

It seems that only reps bring up the left vs. right argument. Poor argumentation skills.

Yes, the US against Saddam and the Nazis. That would make you a Saddam supporter, right?

Congratulations, Dropbox! Dr. Rice has legitimate credentials that most of the posters here wish they had. Sounds like a Media Matters convention.

That number, of course, is a lie.

By you in your parents’ basement?

Um, no, wrong.

Goodbye Dropbox.

The Kurds thank you,

Paying user – just deleted my Dropbox account…

If like me, you are concerned about the privacy of your data in the Cloud, I have been doing a bit of research in the last few hours and realised that SpiderOak take the security of your data much more seriously. The data is encrypted locally before it gets uploaded and they never get access to your security keys, so couldn’t look at your data even if they wanted to.

Why not give them a go? BTW, I have no affiliation with SpiderOak whatsoever, I am just an average guy, tired of the willful lack of real concern for the privacy of my data by a company / companies who I have put my trust. In light of recent allegations with respect to government sanctioned data mining, it beggars belief that companies who rely on the storing of clients personal information as a business model are not willing to do more to protect it.

Thank you for that eloquent rebuttal. I have now changed my postion and no longer believe in the facts surrounding the situation.

Great illustration of why it is actually a bad idea to have Dr. Rice join Dropbox: it makes Dropbox, a company, have a political side. I am very sure the board never wanted that, they were just looking in the knowledge and contacts Dr. Rice could bring.

A lot of people are upset about Dr. Rice and have valid arguments: Dr. Rice’s past deeds might not be compatible with privacy enhancing initiatives cloud based companies in the US currently need. An argument that is neither right nor left.

Turning the discussion into a reps vs dems one, will not support Dr. Rice’s case here.

Thanks for making it so easy to #DropDropbox.

I think @tedlv is simply saying that the media has trained us to think that every time someone disagrees with Obama or Hillary, they are making racist and misogynistic comments, respectively. Therefore, a comment that holds a black woman in contempt for her position / actions must therefore be equally racist and “anti-woman”. That’s the only plausible explanation because, certainly, there’s no progressive agenda at work here. I mean, preposterous as it sounds — that progressive leaders were responsible for the deaths of Americans — if that were the case, then things like Fast and Furious and Benghazi would be allowed to be investigated by Eric Holder.

It takes one to know one.

Nice trolling ejochs.

“Professionalism is in part the ability to take one’s personal beliefs aside while conducting business with the public.” I consider myself liberal, but the Silicon Valley radical left are starting to get really annoying like Tea Party annoying. Go Dropbox! Just keep being awesome as a cloud storage service!

Some want to put trust as the thinly veiled excuse for leaving but honestly, that argument holds no water. If you have that many trust issues, then online storage isn’t really for you as a consumer. If you are paranoid, encrypt before transmit. But this is right up and up some Republican bashing and it shows that politics has invaded our everyday life in ways that are pretty insane.

As for all the people who are getting on the comment queue and talking how the tolerant left has lost touch. These crazies have always been in our ranks, just like the right wing crazies. Maybe one day both sides will grow weary of each’s radical side and we will eventually show that level headedness can once more prevail in modern society. One day, we might be able to live in a country where it no longer seems everyone is jumping off the deep end… Maybe, maybe one day.

I wholly encourage Dropbox to show that they are not reactionary, that they will not relent to unfounded claims and supposition of professional conduct. We cannot begin to take the path as a civilization that people’s prior history forever blackballs them from ever holding any trust. In every case it has been shown in hindsight to be damaging and wrong. Look, look at what we are becoming… scared and rumormongers. Sowing discord before a person even has been given the fair shake to prove their professionalism. If anything it should be seen as shame, because it is ugly.

If I feel wrong about it, if I feel that this is a slow decay of rationale among those who we once treasured as being rational, then I know that I cannot be alone in this feeling and it is my hope that someone/somewhere within Dropbox shares that feeling. That the person will stand up and voice their concerns. That it will start the momentum required for the company to say, “we are not about to cave into unfounded rumors, for they ruin intellectual discourse and serve to only create a people rooted in divisiveness.”

We can no longer weather as intelligent people the deluge of chaotic fear that has engulfed us. At some point, we must say, “no more.”

Who said anything about Republicans vs Democrats? I am referencing great minds vs tiny ones. By these definitions, Winston Churchill could not sit on Dropbox’ board.

And better get of the highway as well, all cars can kill you!

Your logical fallacy is the texas sharpshooter: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-texas-sharpshooter

thanks for the deep thought Mr Handy.

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Congratulations: you are the first one to point that out! Turning arguments into a racism debate, you just uncovered yourself.

A fine speech, but a person’s documented history can hardly be taken as unfounded rumours. It’s also a fairly reasonable position that unless a person shows otherwise, their actions in the past will relate to their actions in the present. People don’t just spontaneously change.

Since you are such an authority on moral value and the judgement of others and assuming you are an American, you should renounce your citizenship immediately since the current party in power has put your contention on steroids.

Maybe when you come up from the basement, you can ask your mother. While you are at it, you can give us the cite to the bill he presented to Congress while his party had total control of it.

Nobody objected her mind. It is just what she has done with it that counts.

No further insults in the direction of Winston Churchill please.

LOL. That doesn’t even make sense. It makes me against war crimes regardless of who commits them. That’s what people do when they stand on principle. They stick to their beliefs, not their partisanship. In fact, Hitlers minions who refused orders to commit war crimes during WWII were not prosecuted at the Hague.

Kudos on standing your ground. It’s your business, win or lose. I like your product and will continue to use it, others can let their conscience, or overblown sense of sanctimony, be their guide.

Architect of the surveillance state? Care to enlighten us? You have the absolute right to choose who to do business with. But Instead of quietly going away and making that choice, you lob these bombs. Now back up what you’re saying. Better yet, head on over to whitehouse.gov and start a petition to impeach the president if you’re such a stalwart defender of freedom and the destruction of the surveillance state.

Good. And I like Condoleeza Rice. I find Al Gore much more frightening and on the top of the list when defining a hypocrite. I’m glad you feel fine about your decision. Apparently so does Dropbox.

Yeah, the NSA and the steroids this administration injected into it are perfectly fine.

data migrated, DB account deleted

After 9-11, there were hard decisions to be made. We forget. War, torture of a few seedy characters. No one excuses it. However, today, there are still decisions being made in the name of security … it involves a massive government monitoring. Observing, watching, gathering phone calls, emails, your graph of friends, your beliefs, your political leanings, your physical / health history. Today EVERYONE, you, me, everyone is a suspect in our own homes, in our own country. Today, you are a suspect if you live outside the country as well: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-03/the-nsa-spying-machine-an-interactive-graphic

And so I ask … Will there be the same outcry when members of the current administration are appointed to a position at Microsoft Azure or Box.com or Google or Amazon AWS?

I use Dropbox because it is a good product. I use Apple products because they are good products despite the fact that I think Jobs was a jerk and their current board of directors are environmental activist nuts. I went to a catholic university but I’m not catholic. Each provide a service, they do a good job. That’s enough for me. “Don’t let your money get mad.”

Thank you, Dropbox. I love your product and will continue to let folks know about its usefulness.

I understand your position, but it is a sad one. You are in saying that people are so shallow in their ability to do things. You are attributing that people can only think one way, only do one thing, only believe one truth. That we are not intelligent enough to actually shed our pasts and take on new challenges that require new dynamics.

I refuse to believe that eight years of someone’s life forever dictates their future actions. I refuse to believe that something that happened five years ago, indicates the stature of someone present mindset. I just cannot fathom someone who held such a high position within the US government being so one dimensional as you suppose.

And I may be foolish for thinking this. Do not get me wrong on that.

However, I have taken the path of show me an action she has done while being on the Dropbox board that we should condemn her for. Once that has happened, I will be ready with stone in hand. However, I just cannot find it as justifiable with my values to judge a person before they have even started the position.

And I may be foolish for thinking this, but my hope is that I’m not foolish for asking for proof before conclusion.

Account deleted because of Condoleezza mice

Give it up, ejochs.

I find the raving and blathering instructive re Dr. Rice by the Pharisees. Casting stones is easy. Slurs are easy. There is no shame there. Just angry invectives.

I am a small time dropbox user who really appreciates the product. Live long and prosper. accept that people hold different positions than I do on a number of things. That’s what and who we are In the United States of America. Bullying and censorship is childish.

I am buying a product. And if any of the hurlers out there own a VW, think about the history — how far back do you go? Own some brand name Japanese products? What were those companies doing in 1944? Where did their management and executives go after the war? We are talking real “war criminals” here. Is your Apple product made in China by driven employees who kill themselves at a higher rate than the usual Chinese suicides?

Get real and move on with life. Drop dropbox, You should know that a lot of us are not going to. If dropping it makes you feel good, fine, but it doesn’t make you morally superior.

It’s not my privacy that is a concern; I just don’t want to do business with a company that has war criminals on it’s board. Bye now…

Here, here! The sanctimony of some on the comment board is at epic levels. However, I think some of the people posting at this point are ad bots to make people feel good about going to one of the competitors.

However, you are correct, this kind of bullying is indeed childish and just a sad reminder of how people allow unfounded beliefs get in the way of rational choices.

Proof that Dropbox has no idea what is going. Hopefully, Dropbox is unaware of the massive list of BushCo (and Obama Admin.) crimes…including state crimes against democracy (google SCADs), torture and other crimes against humanity. Stupidity is not an acceptable excuse though.

Rice, Zelikow, Yoo are just a few of the BushCo monsters that should be jailed immediately…not given corporate board (or academic) positions.

If Dropbox doesn’t drop Rice, I’m dropping them. This is the stupidest thing they could have done. It will ruin their business.

If the executives from Japan or Germany committed war crimes they were prosecuted for them at the Hague. Many were executed. Condoleezza Rice and other members of the Bush administration cannot travel to certain countries because they have been found guilty of war crimes. “Dick” Cheney has cancelled travel plans for fear of being taken into custody.

My Saturday project? Migrating my data to a company that doesn’t endorse illegal war and torture. Thanks Dropbox!

In the face of a government subpoena, no company will protect your data. Furthermore, the NSA could acquire any data they want through a vast array of means.

Here’s the cold, hard fact: any electronic device that has an input should be held as suspect. And that’s not just the tinfoil hat talking: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-03/the-nsa-spying-machine-an-interactive-graphic

Will there be the same outcry when members of the current administration are appointed to a position at Microsoft Azure or Box.com or Google or Amazon AWS? Google “Fast and Furious”, Benghazi, Snowden, NSA, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-03/the-nsa-spying-machine-an-interactive-graphic

The only safe bet … a sheet of paper and a pencil. No, I’m not joking at all.

Rice has in the past spoken out against Dropbox’s stated principles and values. It’s perfectly fair to change one’s positions over the course of one’s life, but we need to hear it from her, not from you.

It has no value to me for *you* to tell me that she supports your values. That’s an empty claim. It could equally mean that you are unfamiliar with the details of her past, or that she’s lying to you and you don’t see it.

When *she* steps forward to tell us that she changed her position on warrantless wiretapping, then I’ll return to back Dropbox 100%. All she needs to do is say “Now that I’m working *outside* of the government, I see the terrible dangers of warrant-less wiretaps, and I was wrong”. That would make her the most powerful ally you could possibly have: someone with experience who has seen the light.

Don’t care about privacy because I think it is never guaranteed with any online service. Do care about my right to choose who I support with my purchases. Rice is a creep – goodbye DropBox, hello one of fifty other similar services out there that do not employ high-profile creeps.

Oh, I think you’re referring to Google’s Eric Schmidt? You mean this guy:

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/google-the-halliburton-of-the-obama-administration%E2%80%A8/

… who said these things …

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” Eric Schmidt told CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo in a December 2009 interview.

“In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you,” Schmidt said at the 2010 Techonomy conference, arguing that there were dangers to having complete anonymity online and that governments may eventually put an end to anonymity. “We need a [verified] name service for people,” he said. “Governments will demand it.”

At Google’s Zeitgeist conference in May 2010, Eric Schmidt addressed concerns over Google’s Street View cars, which had recently been revealed to have collected personal data over unsecured Wi-Fi connections. “No harm, no foul,” Schmidt reportedly said of the incident, according to The Times of London. “A relatively small of data was collected and this was not authorized [...] We stopped driving immediately. There appears to be no use of data. It’s sitting on a hard drive. [...] We will not delete [the collected data] until ordered to do so.”

Schmidt shared a vision of the future during TechCrunch Disrupt conference in September 2010. “It’s a future where you don’t forget anything,” he said. “In this new future you’re never lost…We will know your position down to the foot and down to the inch over time”

goodbye leftist dopes, good riddance all you sissyboys out there

Although I respect her immensely, Dr. Rice is a poor match for a company that is going to be holding my data. I don’t think she or the Bush administration were evil. I do think, however, that they don’t share the values of most of the thought leaders in the tech industry. I know that we have to balance privacy and freedom on the one hand with vigilance and safety on the other. I just draw my line in a different place from where they drew theirs. I do so after decades of work in this very industry. Putting out a statement that Dr. Rice won’t affect your commitment to privacy is ludicrous. Why does she wish to be on the board of Dropbox if not to influence the company’s direction? It begs speculation – are you deluding yourselves? Really that dim? Or convinced that your users are? There were plenty of other choices for the board who are insightful about international markets. I have plenty of choices among your competitors. Goodbye, Dropbox.

Says the person who doesn’t know the difference between your and you’re. I would expect as much from Palin.

bush cheney haliburton, is this all these marxist dopes think about.
I bet you love COmmie Boy Obama spying on you and using the IRS against citizens for politics ? A bunch of brainwashed emascualted sissies

The ignorance I’ve seen here to the lack of understanding of what a war crime is astounding. Proof we need a better education. A war crime is not an opinion, it’s not a belief, it’s not a slur, and it is not partisan. It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, if you have committed a war crime, you have committed a crime. It is an act and a legal decision. It is why members of the Bush administration cannot travel to many foreign countries, because they were found guilty of committing war crimes. Condoleezza Rice committed war crimes. Most Americans are against war crimes, no matter who commits them. So, left or right, if a person is determined to be a war criminal, people who know what that means stand on their principles, and have the courage to oppose war criminals wherever they exist around the world.

Looks like the Cass Sunstein “Cognitive Infiltration” crew has arrived on the scene.

Condoleezza Rice doesn’t belong on your Board of Directors.
She should be on trial at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.

Now thats funny.. Mozilla “dropped” a guy who was doing a great job because of past actions i.e. having an opinion. Rice´s past activities make her untrustworthy for this position, but dropbox doesnt mind….

The Cass Sunstein “Cognitive Infiltration” crew messing with your mind…in order to support of Rice and close down the important conversation about HER.

I don’t think this is a matter of “lack of understanding”. It is a matter of “lack of trust in the process.” The conviction happened in absentia by a special war crimes tribunal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Five tribunal members, if I recall correctly. Five people, a world away. In Malaysia, the home of the government that demonstrates its allegiance to China. So, honestly, I’m not all that convinced as to the viability of that conviction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_War_Crimes_Commission

7 days of testimony from one side … those who were tortured (or their family members).

From the Wikipedia article: “The former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Param Cumaraswamy, has suggested the tribunal is a private enterprise with no legal basis and questions its legitimacy. The tribunal does not have a UN mandate or recognition, no power to order arrests or impose sentences, and it is unclear that its verdicts have any but symbolic significance.”

Hiring someone because of their gender and race is unacceptable. Rice was an extremely poor secretary of state. She was a pathological liar when it came to her statements on Iraq which helped cause tens of thousands of needless deaths of both Americans and Iraqis. So Dropbox didn’t hire her because of her intelligence, they hired her because of her connections.

In any case, Google Drive is a much better option. It’s much less expensive per GB. We use it at the start-up I work for and it integrates nicely with Google Docs, Google Calendar, and the e-mail service we buy from Google. I closed my personal Dropbox account and now use Google Drive at home too. A bit of a pain to move the files over to Google Drive, but not too difficult. Google Drive gives 15GB free compared to 2GB on Dropbox.

Kudos to Dropbox for not cowing to the stupidity of intolerant fascists who are completely ignorant of that about which they speak.

Dropbox’s principles and values have obviously changed to align with those of Rice’s. That’s fine. It’s their choice to hire Rice and our choice to find a storage company whose principles align with our own. There’s no shortage of on-line storage companies and Dropbox was no bargain anyway.

Geez, at least learn to write proper English if you’re going to post. It doesn’t help your position to write like Sarah Palin talks.

What nonsense. If it were true, so would Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who voted in support of the measures the Bush administration took in Iraq.

Ah, all the fake scandals that the Tea Party has been trying to gain traction with. Naturally they failed on every one.

Wait, what? I’m not sure I followed your first paragraph in which you insinuated that DropBox hired her because she was a black woman and then said she was hired due to her connections?

Also, to suggest Condi is not intelligent is a foolhardy endeavor. I don’t think that is why people are objecting to her.

In court papers filed today, the United States Department of Justice requested that George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz be granted procedural immunity in a case alleging that they planned and waged the Iraq War in violation of international law.
Plaintiff Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother and refugee now living in Jordan, filed a complaint in March 2013 in San Francisco federal court alleging that the planning and waging of the war constituted a “crime of aggression” against Iraq, a legal theory that was used by the Nuremberg Tribunal to convict Nazi war criminals after World War II.

The DOJ does not request immunity unless they think the subject parties can be found or are guilty of the crime they are seeking immunity from.

Why because 5 people in Malaysia convicted her in absentia and they sent the ICC their recommendations? Ha!

I’m going to create a tribunal in Topeka, Kansas where I gather a few folks and exonerate her. One is just as arbitrary / legit as the next.

No, wouldn’t you rather have a company that folds when a crew of lefty basement dwellers come calling.

No doubt they have been indicated by Iran and North Korea. That’s enough for me!

Um, no, back to the basement. Your poor mother, having to support you.

That’s the bottom line. We can choose to do business with companies that share our values and hire executives and board members with those values (or at least board members that have not been actively working against those values).

The Tea Party people can do the same. If the Tea Party people are against data privacy and in favor of fabricated stories by pathological liars, used to drag the country into ill-advised wars then by all means they should stick with companies like Dropbox that hire high-level people that share those un-American values.

And a fast pigeon.

I must have missed that endorsement. Sounds bad. I better adjust my tinfoil hat.

The plain majority uses an andriod phone… Remember? Dropbox is preinstalled if you have Samsung, Huawei, HTC etc. , Iphone has it´s own cloud. Additionaly even people have an Apple product, they will have put way more money in that product and it will not be that easy to switch to another company as from Dropbox to another service. So, whatever your point is mentioning Al Gore, this will not help Dropbox…

Didn’t Hillary Clinton and John Kerry vote to support the measure of Bush to get Iraq to allow Weapon Inspectors to investigate?

They are so dreamy, I am sure CC thinks. They don’t kowtow to BushCHeneyHallliburton

And we bombed Japan. We deserved to lose to the Nazis and Imperialist Japan.

Why would Dropbox overlook the fact that Rice failed to uphold her oath as Secretary of State and think that she will do any better as a board member?

Well stated. The Tea-Partiers that think it’s just fine to violate your constitutional oath with terrible consequences can continue to use Dropbox. Wait, aren’t they the ones always screaming about the constitution?

There’s obviously more going on here than we know. Someone forced Dropbox into making this insane decision. They must have photos.

First and most importantly, I don’t really care. :) Most people don’t. I mean, if they did, something would happen. Conservatives / Republicans / Bush & Co. have no power right now, and yet, nothing has come of this. So, either this is nothing or Obama is protecting them. Take your pick.

Second, I wouldn’t be hasty to ascribe motive to a political group like the DOJ whose motives I don’t completely understand. I mean, Holder refuses to release documents about Benghazi, “Fast and Furious”, etc. and refuses to enforce existing laws regarding immigration, so the legal process is not the ONLY thing in play with the DOJ.

Third, the most outcry the world can muster about this matter is to shout down Condi Rice from a small tech company and create a 5 (or maybe it was 7, I can’t recall exactly) person tribunal that legit world courts have not acted on.

Look, you might be right — maybe we *should* disavow everyone everywhere from now on that we disagree with. Don’t like someone on a given company’s board of directors? Use another company. Oh, wait … *that* guy is on *their* board of directors … that’s not good either. Who should I use? “Don’t let your money get mad.”

There’s injustice in the world. It sucks.

Dropbox is a fine company. Admittedly, I’m not sure why they picked a controversial figure for their board, but whatever. Changing costs me more than it costs them.

Ah, so its fake when some people die, but legit when others do? I see.

I’m disturbed be Dr. Rice’s appointment to the board of Dropbox, and will be actively looking for a replacement to the services that Dropbox currently provides. Data transparency and the appointment of Dr. Rice and her history of working with administrations that were not data transparent cannot effectively coexist.

Yes, agreed. :)

War crimes allegations aside, Dr. Rice is a strong supporter of government intrusion into every aspect of US citizens lives, including warrantless spying. I now doubt the veracity of Dropbox’s claims regarding their stance on government surveillance. Time to switch to SpiderOak.

Yes, i would have voted for Obama back in 2008. And no, i strongly disagree with Mozilla´s decison to drop such a brilliant CEO. And i m not a liberal.
Hey, I m even not a US-citizen. This world gets so complicated when you have more than leftists and rightwingers from america involved :)

btw. did u notice the worldwide face-palm when republicans came up with Sarah Palin?

Please do share the name of this great company. Probably another thing to drop…

There were 8 judges in the WWII Nuremberg tribunals. In those trials they executed people for water boarding and torture.

Don’t be coy ;)

What if I round up 9 other people who agree with me and create the War Tribunal of Topeka Kansas and we decide to exonerate all parties involved. Would you not accept that decision by our Tribunal?

If not, why not?

Would it be because you do not accept the authority of the tribunal? Or you because you are simply not aligned with the decision?

Tell you what. It’s Saturday and I’m sitting a computer for no good reason. So, you win. I’ve got to go do crap and live my life.

I’ll be looking to switch from Drop Box which I’ve used for years. Shame.

I think you’re confusing her with Hillary, who should be on trial here in America not at the Hague, for ignoring the repeated appeals of her ambassador to Libya, abandoning him to the tender mercies of Islamic savages, then lying to America over the cause of his death.
Condi Rice is an excellent choice, and I support Dropbox.

LOL! We at least know where you stand on war crimes. If the majority of people didn’t agree with the decision BushCo could travel freely to places like France or Canada or other places around the world. You’ll never win trying to defend, torture or war crimes. Good day sir.

Do you really think Dr. Rice knows the international markets? Oh, wait… yes of course, as part of the Bush administration, the NSA was not far away. For us international customers, this is very trustworthy.

Wait a second … I read Victor Frankl’s “Man Search for Meaning” and Shirer’s “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”. You can’t compare what happened in Iraq with Germany. Germans didn’t simply water board and torture.

Emotional gobbledygook. You need the education. Not only in law but logic. That members of the Bush administration were “found guilty” of war crimes in absentia (without representation) even if true renders any conviction nugatory and nothing more than a statement of the very things you condemn in your opening statement. Go back to the circle jerk.

Dr. Rice was one of the architects of an illegal war that has cost the USA and Iraq untold amounts of money, suffering and loss of international legitimacy. If this is the direction the Dropbox Board would like to set for Dropbox, then Dr. Rice is a good choice.

But that is not to say you shouldn’t take reasonable steps to try and protect what you hold dear, regardless of whether that is a fruitless exercise or not.

So what are you saying?…(to make a crude analogy) that there is no point wearing clothes, because the government, or a government sanctioned organisation has x-ray glasses? Aside from the reality that I would probably get arrested if I went out of the house like that, I wear clothes because it is prudent to do so, it protects me from a certain degree of physically harm and it protects me from prying eyes – not just from government spectacles.

I am not sure whether the above analogy really works but hopefully you get my point…that where possible, we should attempt to protect our personal data whenever possible…and if I entrust that data to a company who has just hired someone with questionable history with regards to data protection, then I should really think hard about whether I feel I can trust that organisation, in all related phases of their operation, not just the extreme of government subpoena.

Have a good weekend, my friend. When you get a chance to ask Obama and Holder why they defended Bush & Co, I’d love to hear their answer. Please post it here.

I’ll check back in later … I know you’re still trying to prove the fact that a war crime was committed. I’m anxious to see what you come up with. 5, no wait, 7 people in Malaysia can’t decide this for the world. If I’ve learned anything from Eric Holder it’s that it’s only a crime when the law is actually enforced. :D

I used Dropbox for years. Now I transfer all my files in the other services. I do not want to trust my files to the service the Board of Directors which includes persons having a direct relation to a infringement of privacy, the outbreak of war and torture of civilians.

Removing my data from dropbox as I type this. So long, DB!

The invasion of Iraq followed 11 UN resolutions, the Iraq Regime Change Act proferred by Bill Clinton and signed by Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Dick Durbin and a majority of other democrats and a joint resolution of congress also approved by a majority of democrats. It was the most legal and justified act of war in modern history to overthrow the most savage, mass-killing dictator on earth. Moreover, Iraq was not a “sovereign nation” according to international law, having lost such a distinction for its violation of all four of conditions of soverignty. Contrast this with Obama’s incursions against Libya, a violation of the War Powers Act and without congressional authorization — a war intended, in part, to secure uninterrupted oil deliveries for certain European nations. That is, an actual “war for oil.” (Unlike the war in Iraq, which secured ZERO oil for the United States then or now or in the future.) You’re a child.

I have also deleted my account and am exploring alternatives. Even if you drop her now, it would take a lot to bring me back. You are co-signing a war criminal and are essentially saying that your values are in line with her’s. That’s terrifying. You almost lost me given your collaboration with the recent revelations of your cooperation with the NSA, but given all US companies had to, I stayed on. This is simply too much. Goodbye.

To extend your analogy … you’re wearing the emperor’s new clothes. That is to say, you are already naked. You just don’t realize it (or admit it).

I worry about privacy of my data. I don’t want my health care or how ruthlessly I’m taxed to be determined by my circle of friends, my religious beliefs, who I voted for, etc. Same for the next traffic stop. Same for the next job I’m considered for.

However, that was was lost before it was fought. Anything you have today or post online is already in possession of someone else (or could easily be in their possession if they merely will it). I am right about this.

If I don’t want other people to know stuff about me, I don’t put it in electric format of any kind. In fact, I don’t say it over the phone either.

For the benefit of those G-men monitoring this thread, there’s nothing to see here … I’m boring. Still, I’m not willing to lift my skirt and show my privates no matter what government agency you belong to.

You do realize every phone conversation, every SMS text message, etc. is already collected. Does that change who your phone provider is? Why not? (Answer: because it doesn’t matter … it’s all collected regardless of who you use. Same here.)

I really wish Dropbox had sought out the expertise of someone other than this person. This announcement is very disappointing.

Wow. Was about to upgrade my account too. Not now. I’ll be using Box and Onedrive now.

I just moved everything from Dropbox to BitTorrent Sync. Why? Well, there’s this:

You said: “As we continue to expand into new countries, we need that type of insight to help us reach new users and defend their rights. Dr. Rice understands our stance on these issues and fully supports our commitments to our users.”

She said: “As a country, we are having a great national conversation and debate about exactly how to manage privacy concerns. I look forward to helping Dropbox navigate it.”

Which to me sounds like she will guide privacy policy. No thank you.

But really this was just the excuse I needed to switch. When I signed up for Dropbox they made it sound like they couldn’t decrypt my files, even if they wanted to. They had to later clarify that they wouldn’t, unless an employee broke policy or they got a search warrant.

With BT Sync, there is no middleman. There are no centralized servers – everything is done peer-to-peer. If I have files that I want to access on many machines, I can do that without worrying that anyone can intercept them, delete them, or affect my ability to access them. My files are securely shared between anyone to whom I grant access and me — that’s it. If Dropbox were to have a terrible IPO and suddenly go down the tubes, their service would stop. With BT Sync, only you control if the service is live. I like this – I don’t like the thought of one company having my data.

Good choice, Dropbox! I am opening a new account with you just for that… Stand up to the crowd of intolerant liberal left!!!

Do you know what the difference is between her and Colin Powell? He actually admits he was wrong and the things he did were wrong. She would still sell it today. Yes Obama has continued it – but she was part of the architecture and reason you even have to talk about “transparency”. America and Americans were completely hated during her time in office. I guess she can give you insight into what not to do.

She is a highly accomplished individual and honorable public servant. I support Dropbox wholeheartedly in its choice.

No, I’m not confusing Condi Rice with anyone.

Did you know that there were 13 attacks on diplomatic missions during the Bush administration? Which resulted in a far greater body count than Benghazi? (And that’s not including attacks on the US Embassy in in Baghdad during the Iraq War.)

If you get your news from somewhere other than Fox, you might have some perspective about just how disastrous the Bush Administration really was.

At the State Department Dr. Rice was the cause of a massive diaspora of some of their most valuable assets, measurably weakening our nations diplomatic strength. Whoever made the argument she could help with expansion into international markets should talk to someone who was there before and after Dr. Rice.

Closing my free account will not cost Dropbox anything. But perhaps it will impress upon them that so odious is their association with Dr. Rice that I will not accept their product even if they *give it away*.

I think they probably see that half of these weird, negative comments are coming from one IP so they probably don’t care that it’s all just one bored kid trying to whip something up. :) Seriously, get out and enjoy your Saturday.

The drones are a reference to the fact that many commenters are calling Rice a war criminal. So many of these anti-war activists are exposed as simply being anti-Bush, because as soon as President Obama was sworn in, the mass protests stopped, the nightly news body count stopped, and war reporting in general slowed to a crawl (how many people know that more troops have died in Afghanistan under Obama than under Bush?). As for privacy – well, good grief, Obama is correctly (and unfavorably) being compared to Nixon. Just yesterday we learned that the feds knew all about Heartbleed and kept it to themselves so they could continue vacuuming up citizen’s data without a warrant.

Sorry, but appointing someone like her to your board DOES send a message – the wrong one. I’m giving you another week so you can change your mind about this. After that, I’m moving my data elsewhere.

Sorry but I moved to copy

You’ve posted 250 comments but we still aren’t there! No one is paying attention to this little scandal yet! We need 5 more comments, privacy! You can do this! Just keep posting comments! You’re making a big difference!

Just deleted my account. Goodbye Dropbox.

It’s pretty funny that people keep arguing lefties, when the only name calling I see happening is calling people with serious concerns “intolerant fascists” or “racists” or “lefty basement dwellers”. I’m not a lefty. But I believe in walking the walk, and I’d rather not expose my data anymore than it already is. I’m giving them a week to get their act together.

I will delete my account by the time you are reading this. Time to find some other service. Have fun with your doctor.

The prob. is actually much worse that this issue that just happens to expose something about the vulnerability of ‘the Cloud.’
Can we trust these corporate interests with our information at any level? Is Dropbox ‘committed’ to your privacy like you are? Maybe they have ideas about our ‘rights’ that we don’t share? Certainly the appointment of Dr. Rice call this into question.

Really? Name them.

Hundreds of people deleting their accounts, just in this thread. Imagine if each one represents closer to 10, because that’s usually what negative publicity gets you. For every 1 person you hear from, 10 are in agreement. And the people defending dropbox? They’re calling those with real concerns ‘fascists,’ ‘lefties,’ and ‘racists’ without any basis for the statement. This has been a really sad few days for Dropbox. Even if they remove Rice at this point, can we trust their managements decision making skills?

By hiring Condoleezza Rice you have made a non-political site very political. She lied to get us into a pointless war on Iraq and should be in the Hague, not in your corporate offices.

Someone watches way too much Fox News. Good luck with that…

I am not going to spend a single penny in this company. Period. She will start saying that she needs to find files of mass destruction.

Nope, we can’t. They’ve proven they are completely oblivious to the ramifications of hiring a known criminal. Even if they drop Condi, I won’t be coming back.

I am pleased that Dropbox has added such an accomplished patriot to their board and look forward to increasing my business with them in the future.

LOL

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

The ‘righties’ don’t have enough collective brain cells among them to form a coherent counter-argument. That’s why they have to call names.

I suspect if Condoleezza Rice and yourself debated the reasons that you responded “lol” to my statement that any viewers present would share your same response, only toward you.

Lol

Please allow Rice to serve on your Board. Please do not bow down to cowards afraid of Free Speech and diversity of opinions. She is only one person on your Board and is NOT single handedly setting policy for your company. We do not live in a Communist or Socialist system where Free Speech and the ability to have dissenting opinions is limited.

Regardless of your commitment, I have deleted my account. I think the presence of possible war criminals like Condoleeza Rice on the board makes Dropbox untrustworthy.

Must watch more Fox news! Rawr! Must… Watch… More… Fox… News…

Is it possible for me to recover my photos that I may deleted in the last 12 months ?

Excuse me, the issue is not about security or privacy, it is about the fact that Dr. Rice is a lying war criminal, and just maybe your customers don’t wish to be tainted by associate with this disgusting individual . . . I’m dropping drop box at once. I’d rather keep my files in a box in my basement.

Hooray for picking Condoleezza Rice. Progressive intolerance is juvenile and ignorant. That’s what put the incompetence of Kathleen Sebelius in place. I’ll stick with and recommend Drop Box on its merits of value and performance, not whiny liberal lynch mobs.

My hope is that those who are protesting the selection of right-of-center leaders to positions in tech organizations should receive a double dose of karma for their intolerant actions and stupidity. What a cowardly covey of whiny, blithering, blabbering, and bloviating idiots the “tolerant” left has become.

Of course that is the status quo and that particular war (if you want to call it that,) may be pretty much over before most have realised it has begun…but that is not to say that those who perpetuate or are complicite in meta data collection and analysis do not deserve to have their nasal hairs tweaked every now and again.

…and to go back to the previous analogy, the more people start to pull on some thin lead underwear, the better. It may make them more of a target in the short term from an x-ray spectacle wearer’s point of view but if everyone out there can be persuaded to pulling on a pair, then it would send a real message…if only that we all know you are out there…we know, at least in some part, what you are doing. It might be a futile gesture but let’s try it and see what happens…if only to slow them down in their efforts.

BTW , love the C# Fundamentals videos ;-)

“she brings an incredible amount of experience and insight into international markets and the dynamics that define them.” can’t argue with that. torture, pervasive surveillance, and illegal wars do a lot to define international markets.

Blanket statements are usually 100% correct…

I will be just as upset if this was James Clapper (who serves at the pleasure of the current PotUS). Now however I do agree the whining is annoying. Do what I am doing, make sure everyone you can influence drops dropbox. 18 accounts and counting.

LOL. Must watch more MSNBC! Rawr! Must… Watch… More… MS… NBC..

One of the biggest results of Dropbox’s ill-advised action is that it gave people the impetus to look at competing solutions for on-line storage. Now, even if they drop Rice, the people that left for a competitor are unlikely to return.

Monthly Rate

Google Drive
————
15 GB Free
100 GB $1.99
1 TB $9.99
10 TB $99.99
20 TB $199.99
30 TB $299.99

Dropbox
——-
2 GB Free
100 GB $9.99
200 GB $19.99
500 GB $49.99

So Dropbox charges $50 for 500GB while Google charges $10 for 1TB. I’m GLAD that they appointed Dr. Rice, as much as I dislike her for her un-American views and her violation of her oath of office. It gave millions of consumers a reason to compare prices. Well actually it goes way beyond price. Google Drive integrates nicely with Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Mail, and Google Voice.

Yikes, I’ve been discovered. :O I suppose I better tone it down a little then. :)

Sorry, I don’t watch that or CNN.

yes and with someone that is so close to the US intelligence community (pick the 3 letter word) I am sure that European/Asian companies are going to flock to this service…. oh wait… no… oh they get it…

Leftist morons named Mitch usually wet their pants with anxiety when anyone they disagree with makes a statement they disagree with, is in a position of power, or challenges them on any of their 1nm-deep thoughts.

lol

Patriots don’t violate their constitutional oath like Rice did. Suddenly the right-wing wackos don’t care about the constitution. It’s precious to see them squirm.

What?

Oh, so you’re one of those really insightful people who gets their news from the comedy channel. My bad.

You’re right. It is your bad.

You people are so pathetic …. and so easy to feed. G’day mate!

Fantastic! Data move coming up!!!

I’m sure Fox news has something great on. Go get feed as well.

Civilians? The guys who bombed the World Trade Center are civilians? You folks are psychopaths.

Like you know basements.

Whatever. Dropbox can hire whomever they please. People that don’t like it can take their business elsewhere. People that are fine with Rice can continue to use Dropbox. It’s a win-win.

There are plenty of other online storage companies to choose from and Dropbox is certainly no bargain. Google Drive costs $10/month/TB. Dropbox costs $50/month/500MB. 5x the price for 1/2 the storage. Google Drive’s free account provides 15GB while Dropbox offers only 2GB for free.

Dropbox should just keep Rice. Those that closed their accounts and moved to a competitor aren’t coming back after going through the hassle of moving all their data from Dropbox to someplace else, and after comparing prices. Dropbox can just be the Tea Party- Approved data storage company.

I am sure Dr. Rice will help Dropbox [invade] foreign markets. You guys will sell like hot [yellow] cake!

I am not sure saying “nothing will change” is such a good idea, so we were fc*kd before Rice was appointed?

Nope, not really. Maybe your mom is lying when she tells you are the smartest little schnookums ever.

But, but but. Halliburton.

What was illegal? Wasn’t it voted for? Did I dream that. Darn low price tinfoil.

Really? They shipped the Japanese to the Hague? Is Nuremberg at the Hague?

Stick to your guns. This is nothing more than left wing hate mongering and PC on steroids. What is their answer? Put Al Gore on every Corporate Board in America! Who is hiding behind drop-dropbox?

Sanctimony in place of girlfriends (or boyfriends, depending on the preference)

Really? Could you provide a docket number for that charge?

Yet the actual service members don’t agree with you and prefer mean old Bush. Good thing they have smart guys like you to fix that.

No, they haven’t really provided one reason while exposing their incredible hypocrisy.

Of you and your mother?

You can keep those Democrats, although their worldview is pretty close to yours.

Thank you, comrade.

He was a warmonger. He committed war crimes. DId I properly sound like a sanctimonious pantload?

Mom, will you drop your dropbox account

So, you were a Saddam fan? The Kurds thank you.

Could you provide the cite to the docket number for her trial and conviction.

Imperialist. You mean the country we are now leaving after having deposed a man of Saddam’s evil?

When?

Really? That’s what you think that all of these countries, who gladly share whatever info is wanted by the rulers of the countries they are in, do?

Communism? You must have the wrong war. Of course, Communism was evil and was defeated by the US.

Baath Party member?

You can do what you want. Just try not to sound like a juvenile turd sponging off mommy.

Really? Worse than the rulers of North Korea? Worse than Saddam? You know his body count, right? You have a twisted morality there, sport.

You better talk to the guys who built and run the “community”. They don’t agree.

I don’t support torture or the NSA –Condoleezza Rice being on your board is an ethical difficulty for me, sad to leave such an excellent service. Bye Bye

Did you have the vapors. You are such a sensitive flower.

Um, corporations do get prosecuted and destroyed. You know that, right, Partriot? Arthur Anderson ring a bell.

Oh, a Saddam fan.

See also copy.com

How about a good old fashioned anti war protest. They stopped during the obama admin for some reason.

Really? What do you find frightening? Is it as frightened as your mother that you will never leave the house.

Where is there proof of that? It doesn’t exist except in your mom’s basement.

And you think Google is committed to respecting your privacy?

He’s doing pretty well for himself. I don’t hear many whiny mom basement dwellers complaining about him.

You don’t even know what fascism is, do you?

If you have issues with spying, why would you go to Google?
BTW – The Obama administration has a turbo-charged spying and the assassination of American citizens. Google is a campaign donor.
How on the world are you planning to keep your principled stance?

Really? By whom?

Mengele? You know what his kind did, right?

Please provide the case number for that conviction.

Saddam fan, huh?

What principle do you have? What war crimes? Cite to chapter and verse, CC. Did you support Saddam?