Edward Snowden: Dropbox is 'Hostile to Privacy'

I don’t use cloud storage. I have a second hard drive and an external hard drive. That’s right, double backup sitting right here next to me. I have always said the “cloud” is a joke. It continues the long-held naming of computer technology to be anything but what it is. RAM! Hard drive! Cloud! If the cloud was called a server farm in North Carolina, some people might think a little differently. But, it’s not sexy, it’s not simple and most people don’t want to know.


Edward Snowden now has warned against the cloud storage service Dropbox which he says is "hostile to privacy", and called for more services to offer the 'zero knowledge' which have no decrypted access to user data.

Snowden pointed out that Dropbox had appointed former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to its board in April 2014.



"Dropbox is a targeted you know wannabe PRISM partner," he told the Guardian. "They just put Condoleezza Rice on their board… who is probably the most anti-privacy official you can imagine. She's one of the ones who oversaw Stellar Wind and thought it was a great idea. So they're very hostile to privacy."

Cloud. LOL.