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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  gmhacker (@realgmhacker) reported 4 minutes ago

  37% of employees knowingly break their company's AI policy. Not accidentally. Knowingly. Shadow IT was USB drives and unapproved Dropbox accounts. Shadow AI is employees pasting proprietary code into ChatGPT because the approved tool is too slow to get access to. 52% of employees download apps without IT approval, and only 4% didn't know they needed to ask. They know the rules. They just decided the rules aren't worth following. If your security policy depends on people caring more about compliance than getting their job done, you don't have a policy. You have a suggestion.

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  JoshEcho (@RealJoshEcho) reported 5 minutes ago

  Right several things this time: 1. Managed to fix the audio commentary. 2. No music or game audio on the vod 😡🤬 3. Now I need to work out how to un submit a streamlabs ticket. 4. Downloaded Dropbox in order to store my 90GB 😱 of stream footage. 5. There's more, a lot more. 1/6

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  Stuart Pryke (@SPryke2) reported 7 minutes ago

  @sila_beyaz @HLearningPD There’s a Dropbox link at the back. It’ll take you to a page where you can scroll down to find the RTT book. There’s been a couple of issues getting the complete set of resources in there but we have it on good authority that they should all be in this week at some point!

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  Umar Sabiu Kane @Spurprotocol (@Umarkane5) reported 7 minutes ago

  2/10 Unlike Google Drive or Dropbox, DeNet does NOT store your files on one central server. Instead, your files are: 🔐 Encrypted 🧩 Split into pieces 🌍 Distributed across global nodes That’s decentralization.

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  Jared Sleeper (@JaredSleeper) reported 9 minutes ago

  @lefttailguy It's really only MSFT who would have a shot, right? Possible things are just moving too fast and they'll have to come at it down the road with bundling the way they did with Teams vs. Zoom/Slack and OneDrive vs. Box/Dropbox

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  Ravi Joseph (@rjkarmayogi) reported 11 minutes ago

  @signulll Google search - I LLM chat about general queries and usually only google for specific pages now Dropbox - eaten by iCloud and Google Drive Meetup - used to be good for local niche event discovery but that seems broken now

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  Startup Drivers by Odigital (@startupdrivers_) reported 11 minutes ago

  Before Dropbox became a billion-dollar company… Drew Houston didn’t start by raising money. He started with a problem.

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  The Bingus Man (@NotNordgaren) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Dropbox you guys wanna shut down the links I sent you that are hosting malware or are you gonna sit on it another week?

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  Adel Bucetta (@adelbucetta) reported 15 minutes ago

  @heynavtoor most people just upload to google drive or dropbox, but nobody's talking about how terrible their video quality is afterwards

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  Ammanichanda (@Arkasiraee) reported 17 minutes ago

  @anvisha The breakdown to see what this really means, An AI just launched that eliminates all marketing jobs. Not some of them. All of them. SEO. Social media. Content writing. Ad creation. Brand design. Pitch decks. Community management. Reddit posts. Email campaigns. All of it. All these jobs are going away. A marketing team costs $200K to $500K a year. An agency costs $10K to $20K a month. A freelance designer charges $5K per project. This does all of it. Every single function. For almost nothing. Like 10% of the cost. Backed by General Catalyst. Jeffrey Katzenberg. Executives from Dropbox, Stripe, and Google. $7.5 million in funding. Thousands already using it. And it has an API. Meaning other AI agents feed it work automatically. AI writes the copy. AI designs the assets. AI posts it. AI optimizes it. No human ever touches it. It just gets better and better with time and eventually the curve will be even tough for humans to read. A full marketing department. End to end. Automated. A week ago AI replaced coders. Before that writers. Before that customer service. Now every marketing job. All at once. From one launch. Just one AI as of now. Every single week another AI drops and another career becomes a subscription. And it’s not slowing down. It’s speeding up You are less relevant with each passing minute.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 17 minutes ago

  Drew Houston got rejected by every major VC in Silicon Valley. Today Dropbox is worth $8B. Here's the pivot that changed everything. 2007: Houston was a frustrated MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. His solution? A file-syncing tool called Dropbox. The problem: VCs couldn't see the market. → "There's already FTP and email attachments" → "Why not just use a USB drive?" → "The market is too small" Paul Graham at Y Combinator was the only one who got it. But even he made Houston prove demand first. Houston's genius move: Instead of building the full product, he created a 3-minute demo video showing Dropbox syncing files across devices. The video went viral on Digg. Sign-ups jumped from 5,000 to 75,000 overnight. Suddenly VCs were calling him. The lesson: When investors can't see your vision, show them your customers instead. Product demos beat pitch decks every time. What's the best way you've seen a founder prove market demand before raising?

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  𝕲𝖎𝖌 𝕯𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 (@Gig_Digger) reported 25 minutes ago

  @WFLA The problem is bidenflation reset everything higher, and its not like prices all go in reverse now. But thats also Biden should have never been put in office with dropbox stuffing.

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 25 minutes ago

  In April 2024, Dropbox disclosed that one compromised service account had given an attacker access to every active Dropbox Sign user's email, phone number, hashed password, API keys, OAuth tokens, and MFA data. Plus the names of everyone who had ever signed a document through the platform without even making an account. Syncthing has been around since 2013 and that breach is structurally impossible against it. 82,000 GitHub stars. MPL-2.0 license. Maintained by a Swedish non-profit foundation. Written in Go. The architecture is the whole product. Every device gets a cryptographic certificate. Traffic is TLS-encrypted end to end. Files move directly between machines you own through the Block Exchange Protocol. No central server gets compromised because no central server exists. Turn off the optional discovery and relay services and Syncthing has zero connection to anyone else's infrastructure. The reason cloud sync keeps producing breaches like the one above is structural. Centralized storage requires a single high-value target. The property that lets you log into Dropbox from a hotel computer is the same property that exposed every user when one service account fell. The convenience and the vulnerability are the same feature. Syncthing trades that property away. The cost is real. Both devices need to be online for sync to happen. There's no web UI you can hit from a borrowed laptop. No shareable link to text a friend. For most people that's a dealbreaker, which is why most people have never heard of Syncthing despite 13 years of open development. For files you actually care about, understand what the $120/year subscription is paying for. Storage at scale is close to free. The price covers an account, a server, a database, and a team that has to keep all three secure forever. The same surface area that made the 2024 breach possible. Dropbox can read your files. So can Google. So can Apple. Their architecture requires it. Syncthing literally cannot. Its architecture forbids it.

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  SockShuppet57 (@SockShuppet57) reported 26 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport: I am having an issue with a Dropbox account. I tried to reply to an old email but was sent to an FAQ. Can someone please reach out to me?

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  Dropbox Support (@DropboxSupport) reported 28 minutes ago

  @SergeiShiryayev Hi Sergei, thanks for writing in. Are you downloading the file immediately, after renaming it? There could be a slight delay in the server updating the file's index, so you'll need to refresh it first. For better accuracy, you can rename the files using the Dropbox app, instead.