Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?
I assume that was directed toward me name dropping Dropbox. It wasn't; I thought they hyped at one point their encryption and not accessing your files. I guess I was mistaken. This is what Wikipedia says: It also uses SSL transfers for synchronization and stores the data via AES-256 encryption, though this is done with Dropbox's own encryption keys, and not the users'. For some reason I thought (incorrectly) that they lacked access/keys to the data. Another reason to roll your own or find a project that lets you encrypt around them I guess. Anyway, it's all over the news now. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2048680/dropbox-takes-a-peek-at-files.html http://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-privacy-2013-9 http://blogs.csoonline.com/data-privacy/2777/dropbox-peeking-your-files - Joe Szilagyi On 9/14/13 4:20 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 07:58:17AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: Dropbox is pulling a Skype. no it's not, it's generating thumbnails. also this is advertising. Hi, I don't follow what you mean by advertising. Thanks, Bernard -- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -- 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.
Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?
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.
Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:47:48PM -0500, Jon Lebkowsky wrote: I followed your links, which said that someone filed a complaint with the FTC. Nothing about the FTC suing Dropbox. Got a link for that? Indeed, seems I was mistaken about how far the issue went. (And I don't understand the intricacies of the FTC enforcement process, but that's nothing new.) As far as I can tell, Chris filed a complaint, Dropbox disputed it, and nothing further came of the matter. -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.
Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 07:58:17AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: Dropbox is pulling a Skype. no it's not, it's generating thumbnails. also this is advertising. Hi, I don't follow what you mean by advertising. Thanks, Bernard -- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -- 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.
Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?
On Thursday, September 12, 2013, Joe Szilagyi wrote: Found online: http://www.wncinfosec.com/**dropbox-opening-my-docs/http://www.wncinfosec.com/dropbox-opening-my-docs/ -- Joe Szilagyi Interesting, thanks for sharing that. Has anyone else tried to reproduce these results? I'm curious what others have seen. I tried this yesterday, only with the .doc file. I haven't been able to reproduce those findings. I tested Dropbox (client and web), SugarSync (client only), and Amazon Cloud Drive (web only). 20 hours later I still don't have any buzzes. Regards, Ryan -- 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.
Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Ryan Getz ry...@getzmail.com wrote: On Thursday, September 12, 2013, Joe Szilagyi wrote: Found online: http://www.wncinfosec.com/**dropbox-opening-my-docs/http://www.wncinfosec.com/dropbox-opening-my-docs/ -- Joe Szilagyi Interesting, thanks for sharing that. Has anyone else tried to reproduce these results? I'm curious what others have seen. I tried this yesterday, only with the .doc file. I haven't been able to reproduce those findings. I tested Dropbox (client and web), SugarSync (client only), and Amazon Cloud Drive (web only). 20 hours later I still don't have any buzzes. Regards, Ryan Dropbox's response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6377712 -- 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.
