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Dropbox says It Can Decrpyt Files If The Government Ask
- petercooper 15y agoThe protip, then, is to create a 256 bit AES-encrypted sparseimage and store that (or several of them) on your Dropbox. So the government might be able to get hold of your sparseimages but Dropbox wouldn't be able to open them up.
- iamben 15y agoI suppose if you really had to store something sensitive on Dropbox, you'd just TrueCrypt it first... Not really an issue then, no?
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- sixtofour 15y ago"shouldn't affect the average user unless they're doing something wrong." s/doing/accused of doing/
- ggchappell 15y agoA number of things here are being said in misleading ways. The title: > DROPBOX: We'll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To No, they didn't say that. They said, "... Dropbox cooperates with United States law enforcement when it receives valid legal process, ...." (emphasis mine) And that is quite a bit different from "ask". I imagine the Dropbox people know the difference; I would be pretty unhappy about this title, if I were one of them. > ... shouldn't affect the average user unless they're doing something wrong. As pointed out by HN'er sixtofour, the real issue here is not whether you are doing something wrong, but whether you are accused of doing something wrong. However, I will point out that this change in the privacy policy, will, in fact, affect no users at all. Dropbox is simply pointing out that, being based in the U.S., they are of course required to obey U.S. law. They were required to do so, even before they pointed that out. Now they are being clear about this fact. Good for them, but it doesn't change what they are required to do. Also, it's worth noting, that that ridiculous line about "unless they are doing something wrong" does not appear to come from Dropbox, but from the author of the article.