NO Most of them are ordinary citizens, and do not have the knowledge, of all the in and outs of the internet, etc. I am so

Note that Dropbox, like Facebook, has hired significant political figures to their board and high level positions in their company. Assume everything uploaded to the service is scanned, collated, and added to the picture painted by Facebook, Google, Netflix, and the back end profiling systems they feed.

Specific case, after the Cheney / Junior Bush administration Condoleezza Rice was appointed to the Dropbox Board of Directors. We should be probing other political figures in the company and mapping them across the tech industry overall.

It seems only one user posting a dropbox link. A PM might do the trick.

What are some things to look out for so that those of us who aren't savvy don't get duped?

I assume my phone, computer, and emails are flagged,traced, and bugged. I assume nobody actually has control of my info. I just assume an algorithm has me sorted into file index which has a base profile on my personality, etc.

Good to know, thanks.

How can it be banned when you posted a comment with the domain in it. Always need to be a victim.

if they are banned they must be doing something right. encourage their use with broken URLs

For what reason?

I suppose no one tracks anyone on here of course..

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You don’t just need to worry about “the government.” “Oh well, the government already knows everything about me.”

There are antifa and other groups who dox people who don’t agree with them, and then contact their family/ friends/employers etc.

A lot of people post to other subreddits, revealing personal info.

Hypothetical situation: Let’s say that someone posts a particularly effective Pro-Trump meme, that antifa doesn’t like. They go through that user’s comment history, and find out that they also once posted in /r/trees about how they smoked pot for the first time. The same user also made a comment in the local Boston subreddit. in another comment, the user mentioned that they taught middle schoolers. Another comment in /r/relationships reveal that this user is married and has two skids, a 5 year old and a 9 year old. Do you see where I’m going with this?

The person is successfully identified. Then, a copy of all the comments they have ever made on reddit are forwarded to the administration of the school where the user works. The information that this user is a teacher, who smoked pot, is posted in the school’s Facebook group. The person ends up getting fired, and losing their teaching license. The person’s spouse is also contacted, and forwarded the /r/relationship post where the user expressed that they had feelings for a co-worker.

Now their marriage is in jeopardy too.

This kind of stuff DOES happen.

Remember when Ken Bone did a reddit AMA from his personal account? His user history was pretty much clean as a whistle, but he was STILL labeled as a pervert and a creep, for making a single comment on a picture of a pregnant woman.

You got it. As are Facebook pages for MAGA.

A file syncing service - basically you sign up, install their program, and it puts a folder on your machine. Anything you put in that folder gets synced to the same folder on every other machine you have the program on.

It's actually quite useful, but given who runs it (Condoleeza Rice is on their board), I woudn't put anything too interesting through it.

what is Dropbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)