Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox's Board of Directors

I wonder what the upside to appointing an outspoken, top-tier NSA advocate and cheerleader for warrantless wiretapping of US citizens to Dropbox's board could be. Seriously, I would love to hear some theories, because I can scarcely imagine a more idiotic (and, as TFA mentions, tone-deaf) move.

Dropbox is likely to hemorrhage their tech-savvy users -- the ones who not only drove adoption at first, but still drive adoption -- and I can only imagine Google Drive, BT Sync, and Box are only too happy to receive us. Is the Valley/B-people bubble really that thick that no one thought this was less than a solid idea?

Any recommendations on dropbox alternatives?

I've been a happy customer for years but won't stay with a company that appoints a war criminal and spying apologist to their board.

>“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," Rice told Bloomberg Businessweek, which was the first to report the news.

So... what? Help Dropbox hand out private keys to spooks and set up database replication to NSA datacenters? I didn't realize she was technical.

It doesn't help that one of those slides literally said "Dropbox is next".

Now in addition to changing all my passwords because of Heartbleed I've got to migrate from Dropbox to... something? Suggestions?

What a week.