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Dropbox Leaves Accounts Unsecured For Hours!

So on June 20th Dropbox made a little mistake. They unknowingly left some of their user account unsecured. This meant that for a few hours that day anyone could log onto someones account and all they would need to know is their email. They could log in with any password.

This bug was live on the Internet for four hours. That's a lot of time for personal accounts information to be at such a risk. It doesn't make sense how such a large and fast growing company can make such a serious mistake.

This is what Dropbox released on their blog.

Hi Dropboxers,
Yesterday we made a code update at 1:54pm Pacific time that introduced a bug affecting our authentication mechanism. We discovered this at 5:41pm and a fix was live at 5:46pm. A very small number of users (much less than 1 percent) logged in during that period, some of whom could have logged into an account without the correct password. As a precaution, we ended all logged in sessions.
We’re conducting a thorough investigation of related activity to understand whether any accounts were improperly accessed. If we identify any specific instances of unusual activity, we’ll immediately notify the account owner. If you’re concerned about any activity that has occurred in your account, you can contact us at support@dropbox.com.
This should never have happened. We are scrutinizing our controls and we will be implementing additional safeguards to prevent this from happening again.
-Arash

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Apple's new iCloud: Nothing new...

I just watched a news special on the new Apple iCloud on Fox news. All I have to say is WTF... This is nothing new, only because Apple released it has it become big news. Has anyone used box.net? I have. They have automatic sync with your computer and even have an iTouch, iPad, iEverything app.

There are a large number of ways to do this. I don't think that Apple name should mean that you are going to get anything good.

What happens when Apple crashes?

I have been using Orb to stream all of my music from my media server to my mobile devices when I'm on the go. What I like about this is that one, it's free. I don't have to pay Apple extra money to have my ripped disks with me on the go. Two, it's in my cloud; not Apple's. One thing that I don't like with this idea is that all of your data is stored on Apple servers. That can't be good... I don't want all of my personal files scattered about the Internet and all over data centers located all around the world. I want to know exactly where every copy of every one of my files is. With the iCloud there can't be any real security.

I don't think that Apple has any idea what they are getting into. Most likely it will just be another stupid thing all the noobs want right away. Yet again, I understand that not everyone is as computer literate as I am. Still, don't fall for Apple's trickery, it's all a joke.

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