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Snowden: Dropbox is an NSA surveillance target, use Spideroak instead

6 pointsby auton1almost 11 years ago

3 comments

Angosturaalmost 11 years ago
.... or simply don't dump sensitive files onto cloud storage. Personally, I love Dropbox. It's ideal for sharing the details of my kitchen extension with my builders. It is not suitable for sharing documents with my patent attorney.
auton1almost 11 years ago
Seems to be the relevant bit: <a href="https://spideroak.com/zero-knowledge/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spideroak.com&#x2F;zero-knowledge&#x2F;</a>
edandersenalmost 11 years ago
Doesn&#x27;t Dropbox have a master key? How else could they do deduplication?