Hi txcrew, this excerpt does ONLY state that the company will obey to law enforcement in case there are any legal disputes or doubts. So, IF you for example put copyrighted files or anything else illegal on this service, and the affected company or police or whatever finds out about it, they may have legal power to obtain information from the Dropbox Team to receive information what the IP address was, which data has been distributed, the eMail address that has been used for registering and so on.
This is nothing weird at all, and it does not mean that anyone can breach the privacy in any easy way. Kevin, you may have a point there - I´d rather be concerned about this side rather than their terms of service. I´d still believe that the data is handled with high security, as it is usually handled - I mean that files cannot be accessed by employees, all data arrives only encrypted on the server and so on. I would be more paranoid about a service like Amazon S3, where people backup their WHOLE COMPUTER to an online storage. Now if there is a security hole, the complete computer would be available to someone... Okay, sorry for driving this a little offtopic here. Kevin, maybe there is a chance for doing some kind of encryption for the MoneyWell file someday, so that those worries about a security problem would be gone forever? Just playing with ideas here. Chris. On Jan 31, 6:21 pm, txcrew <[email protected]> wrote: > Re: Dropbox, I think that its a great piece of software and all, but > it scares me a bit to put your MoneyWell data on there. > > There is a section in the DropBox TOS that basically says they will > share any information you have on there when asked by authorities. > Perhaps that isn't much of a security hazard, but its still a bit > scary. Then again, so is Google. > > Here is what the TOS states: > > "Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement. Dropbox cooperates with > government and law enforcement officials and private parties to > enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information > about you to government or law enforcement officials or private > parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or > appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not > limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of Dropbox > or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, > or to prevent or stop any activity we may consider to be, or to pose a > risk of being, illegal, unethical, inappropriate or legally > actionable." > > On Jan 31, 4:46 am, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > there is this new service called Dropbox (www.getdropbox.com) that > > offers syncing a local folder to their online service. The file should > > be secure as long as it is not in the public folder ;-) . So if you > > both join the service and invite each other to see a shared folder > > where the MoneyWell data file rests, it can be accessed anytime. > > > MoneyWell shouldnt have a problem with it, since it only accesses the > > local file on the computer, while Dropbox is permanently uploading any > > changes to the file and on the other computer immediately downloads > > any changes to the MoneyWell file there. As long as both apps are not > > running at the same time, it should work great. > > > Check out the video at the Dropbox site - and it is a free service > > (unless you want more than 2 GB online space...) > > > The only question remains: Do you trust the service? But then again, > > could you trust Apples iDisk concerning such data? > > All I can say about this is: I´d do it, as long there are no other > > technical hurdles. > > > What do you say, Kevin? :) > > > All the best, > > Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
