It would be as if a city fighting crime releases statistics on muggings but not homicides.
"Today we filed a legal brief asking the court to confirm that we have the right to report the number of national security requests we receive, if any. You can check out our brief here: Dropbox FISC Brief. We'll keep you updated about any developments."
Maybe you don't find that information important, but I do.
huhtenberg's point is simply that he doesn't agree with the classification of the page. That is contains too much information, and cannot include other information.
Fact is, that's not a Transparency Report, it's PR Report, to make you feel better and not run away screaming. I've decided that Dropbox/Google Sync shouldn't be trusted for anything of any importance.
Considering how self-congratulatory HN readers are about this community's intelligence, you'd think more of them would be able to read between the lines.
Not to mention these two claims are contradictory:
"This report doesn't include national security requests."
"Unfortunately, the government allows services to disclose only the aggregate number of all law enforcement and national security requests received "
Does it include the NSA request, or not in the aggregate? First sentence says no, second implies yes.