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Dropbox doesn't offer privacy. Anything done on the service is visible to them and whoever else convinces them to hand over the data. They're exactly the type
by blub 8y ago
Dropbox doesn't offer privacy. Anything done on the service is visible to them and whoever else convinces them to hand over the data.
They're exactly the type of cloud service that shouldn't be used by businesses or privacy-conscious individuals.
Security's also questionable. They had an incident where one could log into any account a long time ago. More recently they were presenting a fake admin dialog to syphon the admin password on macOS and perform some admin tasks on the machine.
- jesseendahl 8y agoTheir security is very good nowadays. I suggest reading their security whitepaper and their blog posts on various security topics: https://www.dropbox.com/static/business/resources/Security_Whitepaper.pdf https://www.dropbox.com/static/business/resources/Security_W... https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/tag/security-2/ https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/tag/security-2/ Disclaimer: I used to work there on the Security Engineering team.