Re: cloud backup services - Dropbox

[Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'll have to look at the Google terms again but a lot of this stuff 
falls into the FUD factor that's being washed up around "cloud 
services". Some of this has been brought on by the services own 
mis-management of their T&Cs, Dropbox being a great example:
http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231001038/dropbox-backpedals-after-cloud-data-ownership-gaffe.htm 


For anyone interested in Dropbox's current T&C's:
https://www.dropbox.com/terms It's very clear: you own your data.

I'm not evangelizing for Dropbox or any other cloud service. Everyone 
does their own homework.

On 7/26/2013 5:16 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> Actually, they are not that different.  I reviewed the Google T&Cs for a
> customer and honestly I was interested if Agile should consider this
> type of account.  In the end they can still scan your data.  They cannot
> act on any specific items of interest they find, but the do use all of
> your CRM data and email patterns to extract marketing information.  That
> includes any spreadsheets, documents, etc that you store there.
>
> As to the encryption, sure it might take NSA a while to break it, maybe
> even never, but every encryption has a key somewhere that has to stored
> unencrypted.  They find that first.  The rest is easy.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
>
>
> On 7/26/2013 9:47 AM, Tim Bronski wrote:
> > I think the business T&Cs are different. Nobody's suggesting you do this
> > with a 2Gig freebee account.
> >
> > On 7/26/2013 4:23 PM, Carl J Novit wrote:
> > > >   You should be very careful with anything you put on Dropbox.
> > > >   Look at their T&C's.  I believe they have the right to do anything they
> > > >   want with data stored in Dropbox, though it would be harder to use i data
> > > >   vs. PC files.
> > > >
> > > >   Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   Carl Novit
> > > >   Vice President
> > > >   Extension: 7708