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Re: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings
From: Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 12:12:56 -0400
Something tells me that (points to your idea) may be in a future dropbox version. On May 6, 2011, at 1:25 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Paul M Moriarty <pmm () igtc com> wrote:The thrust of this article is data deduplication is a security risk? Horse puckey!What surprised me was that DropBox encrypts your data at its leisure and pleasure. Not being a DropBox user, I presumed the data was encrypted locally, under a key derived from your password/secret, and then transmitted for storage. But you know what they say about presumptions...... JeffOn May 4, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:Interesting reading for DropBox users: http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html. [SNIP]_______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings Jeffrey Walton (May 04)
- Re: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings Paul M Moriarty (May 05)
- Re: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings Jeffrey Walton (May 05)
- Re: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings Joel Esler (May 06)
- Re: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings Paul M Moriarty (May 06)
- Re: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings Jeffrey Walton (May 05)
- Re: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings Paul M Moriarty (May 05)