Something tells me that (points to your idea) may be in a future dropbox 
version.


On May 6, 2011, at 1:25 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Paul M Moriarty <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The thrust of this article is data deduplication is a security risk?  Horse 
>> puckey!
> What surprised me was that DropBox encrypts your data at its leisure
> and pleasure.
> 
> Not being a DropBox user, I presumed the data was encrypted locally,
> under a key derived from your password/secret, and then transmitted
> for storage. But you know what they say about presumptions......
> 
> Jeff
> 
>> On May 4, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> 
>>> Interesting reading for DropBox users:
>>> http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html.
>>> [SNIP]
> 
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