On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 08:47:09AM -0700, Joe Szilagyi wrote: > I thought they hyped at one point their encryption and "not > accessing your files". I guess I was mistaken.
They used to claim that "dropbox cannot access your files", but after Chris Soghoian and others pointed out that this was not true, the FTC sued them for false advertising. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29#Privacy_concerns So you were only wrong in that you believed what a company falsely claimed about the security of their proprietary product. (Sounds like a familiar story.) -andy -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
