I just had to look up Ajax.
Apparently he is a Greek hero. Fancy pseudo-intellectual sprinkling Greek mythology into your conversations...

Great idea! In fact, forget about the passwords and the insurance.

I propose an addition to bittorrent clients that detects this poisoning and floods the poisoner with packets. If all clients devoted some small percent of their bandwidth, say 10% to flooding poisoners it would DDOS them. I propose we call it 'ImRubberYoureGlue".

Welcome to the Olympics... May the odds be ever in your favor!

These comments are full of 'helpful' suggestions to compare to backup or to md5's generated from the backups.
That makes no sense.
If he has a good set of backups JUST RESTORE THE BACKUPS to get known good files back. Why would you read every backup file and every current file, then compare them, then make a list of ones that don't match just to restore the backups. Restore them all. done.

And we will be paying for every useless bit of it.

"This little drive is not worth the effort. Come, let me get you something..."
"The frugal is strong in this one."

These aren't 'random people' wandering around a data center. This is the FBI. They flashed some badges, made some threats, and when they were done they zapped everyone with a neuralizer just to be sure.

> Americans still believe that life was created by God 6000 years ago

heh-heh.

I met one of those. Nice family. They an incredibly detailed history chart on butchers paper running all around the walls of their house. I was walking along it reading all of the diverging lines of societies, wars, inventions, etc. It was fascinating. Then I reached "the end". I said, 'where is the rest?'. "What rest?" they replied, "that is when God made the Earth."

The hairs went up on the back of my neck in an involuntary reflex inherited from my Ape-like ancestors... or was it?

You don't get it? Two business have a dispute which they are working out. In the meantime Apple is stopping developers from incorporating Dropbox's API and stopping users from using those apps. The users suffer while the businesses argue.

A more reasonable response would be for Apple to tell Dropbox this particular element of their app is unacceptable and must be changed within one month or one week or some time frame WITHOUT holding the users hostage in the meantime.

(confession: I did not RTFA)