Re: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings

[Paul M Moriarty <pmm () igtc com>]

Encrypting locally would kill their ability to do deduplication and significantly increase Dropbox's operating expenses.


On May 6, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Joel Esler wrote:

> 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......
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > > On 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]
> >
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