Earlier this year I looked at doing my taxes online but didn’t because I wasn’t keen on trusting Taxcut to hold and store my data up there in space. I believe we are moving toward more cloud and cloud like solutions but like the wild frontier it’s a brave new world. I’m very content on letting others forge the new path for me at this point.

Today I read an article off of /. where Dropbox let it be known that yesterday any account could be accessed by anyone, with any password, for 4 hours. This was due to a botched update that basically broke their validation process. They spun it as it was only for four hours. Four hours? On the net? WOW!

How can people like me build the trust to use these technologies when you have what I will call incompetent developers and testers build these services. I don’t care how successful Dropbox is, this is inexcusable and incompetent. Basic unit testing should have found this. I just cleared and have stop using Dropbox as a result.

Call me when they have found the new California of Cloud services and it has been settled.