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I don't care. I use Dropbox because of the unparalleled feature set and ease of integration. I have my taxes stored on Dropbox, along with a lot of other sensit
by gergles 16y ago
I don't care. I use Dropbox because of the unparalleled feature set and ease of integration. I have my taxes stored on Dropbox, along with a lot of other sensitive information. They're in an encrypted RAR file with a line-noise passphrase, just like they would be if I were storing them anywhere (including locally -- after all, what if Mallory steals your hard drive? Or, to parrot the most common movie plot threat, what if the NSA secretly breaks into your house when you're out at the movies and images all your disks then slips them back in without your knowledge?)
The features DB offers for sharing, web access, etc. are well worth the tradeoff, and I am ashamed to see the security pedants constantly pillorying Dropbox because it's not some imaginary "verified secure" system. They don't advertise to be that. A claim of "we encrypt your files with RSA" should be utterly meaningless to you without knowledge of how the key is controlled, and a few seconds' thought and examination of the feature set should inform you that yes, Dropbox has to have the key to decrypt the files. That doesn't make the claim of "your files are encrypted" any less true.
- JonnieCache 16y agoYou should consider using something like truecrypt rather than rar encryption. http://www.truecrypt.org/ http://www.truecrypt.org/
- lean 16y ago> paying Dropbox customer here, I wouldn't call the features "unparalleled". SugarSync offers more, and for slightly less: https://www.sugarsync.com/sync_comparison.html https://www.sugarsync.com/sync_comparison.html ...or so I'm assuming. I never tried it because last time I checked they require a credit card for a free trial.
- heyitsnick 16y agoSeems like you can get a free 5g account without CC here: https://www.sugarsync.com/signup?startsub=5 https://www.sugarsync.com/signup?startsub=5