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    Dropbox fail...

    Think I'll be switching to SpiderOak. Luckily I have nothing private on my Dropbox store.

    http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011...-in-as-anyone/

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    Re: Dropbox fail...

    damn all my Sara Jean Underwood pictures gone ......

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    Re: Dropbox fail...

    welcome to the wonders of the cloud!

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    Re: Dropbox fail...

    TBH this could happen to any provider - as the article states, Facebook made a similar error last year.

    Dropbox is very convenient, but anything sensitive I store in a truecrypt container and store that on Dropbox.
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    Re: Dropbox fail...

    It can't happen if they do proper client-side encryption and don't store the keys - the security they (Dropbox) imply is a fantasy. Sure, they can still lose/corrupt data but nothing would be viewable by a third party.
    Last edited by watercooled; 09-07-2011 at 11:06 AM.

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    Re: Dropbox fail...

    Thank goodness all this cloud stuff every tech company is ramming down consumers throats is safe and proven technology.
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    Re: Dropbox fail...

    Quote Originally Posted by watercooled View Post
    It can't happen if they do proper client-side encryption and don't store the keys - the security they (Dropbox) imply is a fantasy. Sure, they can still lose/corrupt data but nothing would be viewable by a third party.
    That may be true, but the issue in this case was that the authentication mechanism was broken for a time so anyone could log in. Now if the keys were stored locally (and not held by Dropbox, that would prevent decryption, but would also make sharing harder to do - and one of the selling points of DB is the sharing facility, either between computers by one user, or different users. And it is very good for that.

    Despite aidanjt's assertion above, cloud technology is still evolving, and my major concern is that the cloud is fine, while the service provider is still operating. But it is because of the sy concerns for sensitive stuff that I encrypt anything sensitive before uploading it to Dropbox - photos I don't really care.

    I hadn't realised though that Dropbox uses Amazon's S3 storage for user files.
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