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You're missing the point. Dropbox isn't E2E encrypted. Send was. The technology is E2E encrypted file transfer via a central server. It doesn't matter whether
by Reelin 6y ago
You're missing the point. Dropbox isn't E2E encrypted. Send was. The technology is E2E encrypted file transfer via a central server.
It doesn't matter whether the response is due to a moral panic or an attempt to protect their reputation. The end result is the same - reduced public availability of <insert technology here> while the bad guys generally continue using it the same as before.
- nine_k 6y agoThe parent comment had a good point, though: trust. If you run a public file sharing service, trusting a link shared through it becomes hard if it's overfilled with phishing and virus-laden fakes pretending to be legitimate things. Often you don't want the risk as a user, and definitely you don't want an association with a cesspool as a brand. Until trust is solved, running and using such a service remains problematic. It needs not be solved via content inspection, though; if I could verify the sender, I won't care about phishing links (and such links would cease to be useful for scammers and disappear). But this is a separate significant undertaking.