Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board
April 10th, 2014Via: TechCrunch:
Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor has joined the board of cloud file storage and syncing firm Dropbox.
Via: TechCrunch:
Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor has joined the board of cloud file storage and syncing firm Dropbox.
Rather odd ‘marriage’. Ex-Google execs also joined on to high ranks of Dropbox. Rice was just in town a couple weeks ago:
http://tamutimes.tamu.edu/2014/03/31/condoleezza-rice-to-speak-tuesday-at-texas-ams-wiley-lecture-series/#.Uzl3h9FOW1s?utm_source=tamutimes&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2014-04-01
My portable back-up drive software even has a Dropbox feature. With all the spying portals, why would folks trust their files to another hyped cloud company? Terabyte hand held storage devices are so inexpensive these days. And internet speeds continue to ramp up. Sharing large files is becoming less of an issue.
I suppose people view banks the same way. Their deposits and accounts do not in reality belong to them. Never did. Bank Depositors are “Unsecured Creditors” … oops I am off on a tangent.
Anyway … The NSA document indicates that it is planning to add Dropbox as a PRISM provider. The agency also seeks, in its words, to “expand collection services from existing providers”.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
So it goes