Now anyone, not just cops with a warrant, can peek inside your Dropbox →
vruz:
—via laughterkey:soupsoup:
Dropbox Reader is yet another reason for Dropbox subscribers to be more responsible about how they interact with the cloud service.
Before the ToS change, the service boasted: “Dropbox employees are unable to view user files.” Now, not only are the files viewable, but with Dropbox Reader, the very fundamental elements of the account are penetrable.
Motherfucker.
To be clear, if you take the time to scan the Dropbox Reader’s README.txt file, you will quickly learn that the utility is simply scanning the contents of local files on your PC… not on the Dropbox servers “in the cloud”.
Furthermore, there’s no encryption broken here… these are plaintext database files that tell your Dropbox application the state of various files. You don’t need Dropbox Reader to see what’s in them… it just converts the information into something more easily readable. Nor is this information helpful in any way to break the encryption that’s in place.
I agree that it’s egregious that Dropbox lied to us about their capabilities for so long… but knee-jerk reactions to announcements where you invent imaginary vulnerabilities is bad, too.
This post was reblogged from united colours of vruz.
