Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors

Re:Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors by daniel_iversen on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:13AM (#22233176)

Claim 1 is 100% false also (ex Dropboxer here), they encrypt files at rest in 4MB chunks for all versions of the product (from free, pro, plus, business and enterprise). It’s in their security white paper too: https://www.dropbox.com/static/business/resources/Security_W...

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Re:Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors by sintaxi on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:32PM (#22242791)

Security and privacy are not the same thing - and how the files are stored on disk is irrelevant. Obviously the files are also encrypted in transit as well. The bottom line is Dropbox holds the keys on their end and has unencrypted access to the files on while on their servers. They can read the files at will. That is not an architecture that is focused on privacy - which is fine, but it shouldn't claim to be otherwise.

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Re:Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors by Strom on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:23AM (#22235210)

Claim 1 is 100% true if we're talking about end-to-end encryption where Dropbox doesn't have the key. That is more likely what the parent meant.

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