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Dropbox and Google could easily encrypt the files locally with your own key prior to uploading them to their servers. But of course they won't do that, because
by mtgx 6y ago
Dropbox and Google could easily encrypt the files locally with your own key prior to uploading them to their servers. But of course they won't do that, because then how else will they mine your data?
Also, you probably shouldn't trust them even if they did offer this anyway.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoAlso (and more charitably), I'm pretty sure at least Dropbox deduplicates files between customers.
- jtbayly 6y agoWhich allows them to charge many people for “storage space” that they aren’t actually using.
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- ec109685 6y agoIf the key for the file is the hash of the file, which they encrypt with the user’s passphrase, they can prevent anyone who didn’t originally have the file from being able to read it, including themselves.
- jeffbee 6y agoSure, if you don't want search or sharing or 90% of the other features of Google Drive then encrypting on the client side makes great sense. For people who demand that their computers are useful, it doesn't make any sense.
- rcxdude 6y agoSharing can be accomplished like encrypted file-hosting sites do: encoding a decryption key in the anchor of the URL. Search of course is harder, but it's a bit unreasonable that it's not an option at all.