This whole story brings increasing clarity on the difference between "we don't look at your files" and "we can't look at your files", as outlined by Colin Perci

This whole story brings increasing clarity on the difference between "we don't look at your files" and "we can't look at your files", as outlined by Colin Percival: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-with-cat-jpg.html http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w... Obviously, the sharing and interoperability of Dropbox are key features, but for lots of use cases I'd much prefer technical barriers to policy barriers. The article claims that technical barriers exist at Dropbox as well, but considering they hold all the encryption keys, and I have to trust they're even encrypting in the first place, any "technical barriers" they erect are really no more assurance than policy.