Dropbox and SkyDrive: true paladins guarding of our files?

A few days ago we peeked in the licenses of three popular services cloud storage and the location of Big G ​​has slightly concerned but also other services are just so? To answer this question, we submitted in the conditions of use of two of the most famous, Dropbox and Skydrive, and other details have emerged not exactly reassuring .

Starting with Dropbox , one of the first lines states that the company will not provide our content to anyone ever , even in legal cases:

No matter how the Services change, we will not share your content with others, Including Law Enforcement

which one part is reassuring, but the other very credible, so we would expect his side to a lot of asterisks, ready to conceal "the catch".

A few lines later, we discover that in fact we are the sole responsibility of the account and the actions derived from it, whether or not expressly authorized by us, and that if we want our data is safe with us we have to worry about building a secure connection the server.

You are Responsible for any activity using your account, Whether or not you Authorized That activity. (...) It is your responsibility to use a secure encrypted connection to communicate with the Services.

Continuing, we came across another sentence rather enigmatic , which seems to refer in a contradictory way to the first point:

We Will Respond to Alleged notices of copyright infringement If They Comply with the law and are properly provided to us.

or, in case of copyright infringement, Dropbox could provide the required data .We end the tracking on this service with a fairly obscure last paragraph:

We may share your information with a third party application with your consent, (...) we are not Responsible for Those parties do what with your information.

In a nutshell, Dropbox can share our data with other applications, but the company is not responsible for what third parties do with this information. What is legitimate in the sense that it will only against our consent, but if we want to be sure it is better not to give it regardless.

Moving to Redmond, the old story does not change much with SkyDrive promises the same things as Dropbox, only to emphasize that

The user is responsible for backing up data files in the service. Following the suspension or cancellation of service, it may permanently delete your information from their servers without any obligation to return the data to the user.

Report also the possibilities for the company to automatically load information on the user's computer and using the same service is offered by Microsoft, allowing himself the right to change the contract at any time, especially:

Microsoft may access information about you, including the content of your communications, or to disclose: (a) comply with legal requirements or comply with legal requirements or with legal process, (b) protect the rights or owned by Microsoft or its customers, including the enforcement of contracts Microsoft or policies governing the use of Microsoft's service by the user, or (c) protect the personal safety of employees, customers or users Microsoft, in good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary for that purpose.

But what is meant by good faith ? We ask this because in the end also contains a clause similar to Google Drive.

Consulting with Big G, we note that Google does not attempt to dispose of property of you, but simply a warning, with the most colorful tones , that if you load something on their servers, something that could be used, but only for services that Mountain View is interesting: a kind of suggestions box implied that looks very much like a mirror for larks or at least to  a hook is not too inviting .Through the text, we note an interesting clause that the company arrogates the right to show our content in good faith , just like Microsoft.

Apparently, however, is not all that glitters is gold , and none of the three services seem free from objections and "data leakage": what do you think?

Thunderbolt interface will become popular until the end of the year

Standard Thunderbolt, developed by Intel as a replacement for the current interfaces, while not widespread among the owners of Windows-based PCs. While only one Apple in droves introduced a promising technology in their machines. But the situation by the end of this year, essentially unchanged. At least, so says Intel in the face of the vice-president of the company.

 

Thunderbolt was first introduced more than a year ago , participated in its design engineers at Intel, in collaboration with Apple. This interface has incredible features: data transfer rate up to 10 Gbit / s (in term of up to 100 Gbit / s) at a distance of 100 meters, which is comparable to the speed HDMI, two times faster than standard USB 3.0, three times faster than eSATA / SATA 300, ten times faster than Gigabit Ethernet, and more than 20 times faster than USB 2.0 and FireWire 400.

 

Apple's participation in the development of the standard meant that the company became the first PC manufacturers release machines with Thunderbolt. And so it happened. First introduced in Cupertino Mac with appropriate functionality, and then appeared in Thunderbolt computers from companies Lenovo, ASUS and Acer .

At the moment the market is little more than 20 peripheral devices interface with support for Thunderbolt. First of all, this external hard drives and monitors. But the projected Intel, the end of 2012 their number will grow to hundreds of titles by the end of next year's Thunderbolt-range devices will be in the thousands.

As for the peripheral gadgets, the Thunderbolt got support in the first external hard drives from manufacturers such as Matrox, Western Digital, Seagate. Apple in addition to the list released 27-inch Display Thunderbolt .

So due to what Intel hopes to increase the popularity of the interface Thunderbolt - if more than a year, demand was Thunderbolt except among users of a Mac, why should a fracture occur in the minds of the public? Hope for a brighter future is associated with CPUs and chipsets Ivy Bridge for them. The new motherboards based on this chip will support the work of the native interface Thunderbolt. Previously, to implement similar functionality producers used the extra chips. More and more systems will be able to work with the Thunderbolt.

 

Of course, not be forgotten, and the usual generic USB 3.0 - both technologies are wired data transmission will be cohabiting in a single system. Moreover, in the near future there will be mobile PCs with two kinds of ports, which in turn will lead to a significant increase in range of Thunderbolt-periphery.