[ale] Dropbox opinions wanted

[Greg Freemyer]

The answer to http://serverfault.com/questions/52861/how-does-dropbox-version-upload-large-files

implies they have access to other users unencrypted files from which
to make you an encrypted copy.

Dropbox just dropped off of my acceptable provider list.

Greg

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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