Dropbox’s Moral Compass

At Boing-boing, writer Rob Beschizza’s headline is:

“Condoleezza Rice, surveillance and torture fan, joins Dropbox board.”

The DropDropbox site is more graphic, with photos of waterboarding.

The week after Mozilla/Firefox CEO Brendan Eich was forced to leave his position for his views about marriage equality, Dropbox has decided to take Dr Condoleezza Rice into its leadership team, a politician whose views about intercepting e-mails and phone calls are considerably more relevant. According to various reports, Dr Rice supported and perhaps even had a hand in approving warrantless tapping of home and office telephones as well as the e-mail of United Nations Security Council members in 2003, merely to determine how they would vote.

TechDirt tries to be optimistic, referring to some strong statements by Dropbox’s leadership against NSA snooping in the past, yet calls the appointment of Rice a “tone-deaf” move.

There are many alternatives to Dropbox — box is the one I’m currently leaning towards. A few were profiled by lifehacker a couple of years ago.

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