[ale] Dropbox opinions wanted

[James Sumners]

Looks like they do use some trickery:

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=13313&replies=6#post-83928
http://serverfault.com/questions/52861/how-does-dropbox-version-upload-large-files

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Some manuals can be rather large so my thought is that they take a MD5
>> sum of the manual and look in their database for something that matches.
>> If it does then they simply copy the match to my account instead of
>> uploading what I placed in my Dropbox directory.
>
> In theory, I would have a problem with that.  I don't think they should
> be snooping around in my data for the sake of someone elses.  I
> perfectly understand the issue though, still, I don't like it, if in
> fact, that is what they are doing.



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