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The 30 day deletion deadline has passed, but I have managed to restore the most recent version of your dissertation. Then you have the opposite problem; privac

• tomp 12y ago
  Why would privacy centered users use Dropbox?
  • dspillett 12y ago
    People being sensitive about their data does not necessarily imply they are sensible with their data! That is their problem rather than anyone else's of course, but that isn't what they'll shout if it bites them in the arse later - they'll concentrate on shouting about the involvement of Service X rather than pontificating on whether involving Service X for that particular data was a good idea on their part in the first place. If they are encrypting their data client-side before the sync service touches it, then they may have thought they were safe until a key leaked and they recoded everything with new keys only to find that arched copies somewhere out there were still openable with the previous (now leaked) key(s).
  • freehunter 12y ago
    People complain about Facebook not actually deleting content that they wanted deleted. Privacy conscious users don't always have to be privacy conscious when they start using the service.
  • icebraining 12y ago
    Privacy isn't an on/off switch. I might be OK with the danger of my files leaking out as long as I know they'll be deleted when (or not long after) I tell them to. Like any other security measure, it's a question of tradeoffs.