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Given Dropbox's absolutely glacial pace of feature progression, no it would not be easy. I mean, all of dropbox runs off of one set of private keys... https://
by josh2600 11y ago
Given Dropbox's absolutely glacial pace of feature progression, no it would not be easy. I mean, all of dropbox runs off of one set of private keys...
https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/28 https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/28
- fapjacks 11y agoDropbox works with the NSA to hand over customer data. You are absolutely right that something like this would go over like a turd in a punchbowl at Dropbox HQ.
- kiwibulldog 11y agoUnlike Google, Microsoft and Slack, Dropbox does have the top, 5 star, EFF rating for protecting your data from the government... I'm not sure what more they could be doing. Edit to add link to EFF ratings: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015 https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
- msh 11y agoThey could do client side encryption.
- nkuttler 11y agoYou trust the end users to back up their private keys?
- __david__ 11y agoI don't care what other people do. I want client side encryption!
- jabl 11y agoAt least on Linux/OSX/Android, you can use encfs to have a encrypted directory tree.
- reitanqild 11y agoThen use tarsnap already. Bonus: it is owned by our own cperciva. tarsnap is nerdish, secure and reasonably priced for what it provides IIRC. Haven't used it though but expect someone would have yelled out here if it was bad. (In fact the only one I've seen bashing it was patio11, -because it was too cheap and too nerdish.)
- cperciva 11y agotptacek also complains that tarsnap is too nerdish. :-)
- msh 11y agoSpideroak can do it without private keys to back up.
- clinta 11y agoTheir profitability depends on being able to dedupe and compress data across all customers. They would need to raise prices significantly to make client side encryption a built in feature.
- rmc 11y agoAs the recent Schrems case in the CJEU said, any data held in the USA is no secure.
- reitanqild 11y agoThanks for adding facts. Do they still have that questionable(?) politician on the board?
- fapjacks 11y agoEveryone seems to have completely forgotten that Dropbox was named in PRISM documents as handing over information to the NSA.
- fapjacks 11y agoAre we THAT forgetful? http://kiledjian.com/main/2013/6/7/nsa-is-using-google-facebook-apple-youtube-dropbox-to-spy-on.html http://kiledjian.com/main/2013/6/7/nsa-is-using-google-faceb... Dropbox was listed on PRISM documents. Are you kidding me?
- tptacek 11y agoBy all means, just make stuff up. You've come to the right venue.