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kiwibulldogon Dropbox Project Infinite

The NSA doesn't have backdoors into Dropbox. Dropbox has had the highest rating from the EFF regarding user rights, transparency and privacy.

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...

kiwibulldogon Introducing the Keybase filesystem

Unlike Google, Microsoft and Slack, Dropbox does have the top, 5 star, EFF rating for protecting your data from the government... I'm not sure what more they could be doing.

Edit to add link to EFF ratings: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...

kiwibulldogon Dropbox acquires Hackpad (YC W12)

Sold did a good job on this... See "What was Sold?"

http://www.usesold.com

kiwibulldogon Carousel – Gallery from Dropbox for photos and videos

It only uses wifi by default.

kiwibulldogon Carousel – Gallery from Dropbox for photos and videos

You don't need to use Carousel to be on the receiving end. If the recipent isn't a Carousel user, they receive a link to a nicely formatted gallery page with the option to download all the photos in a zip file or copy them to their Dropbox.

kiwibulldogon Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company

Mildly correct.