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Re:Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of Nor... by JoshTriplett on Saturday May 02, 2015 @01:40AM (#9476007)
Only if they already have illicit access to the systems in question. In which case, considering Dropbox doesn't actually encrypt data at rest, it'd be much easier to get the data at the endpoints than in transit.
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Re:Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of Nor... by skuhn on Saturday May 02, 2015 @03:32AM (#9476234)
Data is indeed encrypted on the storage systems (but not on client machines, if that's what you meant).
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Re:Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of Nor... by JoshTriplett on Saturday May 02, 2015 @01:07PM (#9477725)
If it were only the end-user client systems, that'd be less of a concern, but the servers that run web frontends and similar also have full access.
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Re:Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of Nor... by lwf on Monday May 04, 2015 @10:55AM (#9486510)
https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/27
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Re:Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of Nor... by JoshTriplett on Monday May 04, 2015 @11:17AM (#9486662)
Not even remotely comforting. Talks all about how employees "are prohibited" from accessing your data, but that's unrelated to whether they're capable of doing so.

I much prefer the privacy policies of more secure services, which tend to say things like "we do not have the ability to access your data under any circumstances".

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Re:Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of Nor... by colechristensen on Sunday May 03, 2015 @02:03AM (#9480195)
My point is that there are a few assumptions you should make

* A significant number of encryption technologies are broken or achievably breakable by the NSA

* The NSA has already or could easily acquire encryption keys from any large tech company with a court order in one of the secret courts

* The NSA has vast means for illicit access into systems and networks

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