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How do you safely store your data if you don't have access to dropbox ? As in, dropbox, that company that didn't exist until q3 2008 ?

There is a "must be this tall to ride" limit on the Internet, and that is your own IP and the ability to act as a peer on the network.

If you don't meet those requirements, you are just a consumer. You're eyeballs that someone else is renting out. You're a digital serf.