>All of this should have been obvious to anyone that bothered to think about what was going on This is easy to claim, but we live in a world of tech. You need

>All of this should have been obvious to anyone that bothered to think about what was going on This is easy to claim, but we live in a world of tech. You need to step back and get some perspective. We have piles and piles of domain specific knowledge, the layman can barley set up a home router. Dropbox claims to have over 25 million customers. How many of those people do you expect to even have the knowledge to be able to figure this out? You're putting the burden of realizing dropbox's claims don't hold water on the consumer, who probably doesn't understand a single thing about cryptography. Even if every one could figure it out, they still shouldn't have to. >I guess I'm mostly amused by people that are surprised by any of this. I wasn't surprised by any of this, what I am surprised by is people who see others trying to raise consumer awareness and are so quick to dismiss them just because they happen to be among the few who actually do understand the technical limitations of the cryptography implementation used.