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Re:Firefly – Full Text Search Engine for Dropbox by jamesondh on Sunday April 12, 2015 @06:54PM (#9365047)
If you really didn't want Dropbox having access to your files, why would you upload it in the first place?
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Re:Firefly – Full Text Search Engine for Dropbox by em3rgent0rdr on Monday April 13, 2015 @02:17AM (#9366188)
Most likely the average HN reader is well aware that dropbox must have access to read your files. But possibly an average joe who doesn't read the TOS and who doesn't think everything through would assume that private storage is private to joe only and that the advertised encryption extends beyond transport to storage.
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Re:Firefly – Full Text Search Engine for Dropbox by rakoo on Sunday April 12, 2015 @09:04PM (#9365412)
Because you can use Dropbox as a raw storage system by encrypting stuff on the client ?
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Re:Firefly – Full Text Search Engine for Dropbox by tomglindmeier on Sunday April 12, 2015 @07:06PM (#9365078)
I avoided Dropbox. The news about FireFly just remembered me why I did it.
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