As a recent but wholly enamored user of DropBox — that is, I was enamored until the security B.S. became known — I found this interesting. What is private and what is “who cares” anyway?
It’s from Susan Orlean who writes the Free Range blog. You need to read the whole thing (it’s only three paragraphs), but I liked this line:
“In fact, most of what I store there is so boring I can hardly read it myself, so it’s hard to picture it titillating a Dropbox programmer. (Note to the programmer now reading my files: can you remind me when my son’s next soccer game is? I think I uploaded the schedule last week. Thank you.)”
Yes, the Virginia Sweeties sports schedule matrix is in my DropBox — how else could I find it on my two Macs, iPad and iPhone. But my financial files are no longer.