FTC Complaint alleges Dropbox misled users on security

Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges

The FTC complaint charges Dropbox (.pdf) with telling users that their files were totally encrypted and even Dropbox employees could not see the contents of the file. Ph.D. student Christopher Soghoian published data last month showing that Dropbox could indeed see the contents of files, putting users at risk of government searches, rogue Dropbox employees, and even companies trying to bring mass copyright-infringement suits.

[continued @ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/]

 

Added a 4th option to your poll There's always a D) None of the above... heh. I never really trusted cloud services because I've met too many bad programmers in my lifetime, and seen the code they put out.

 

to amplify; anyone who 'trusts' cloud services (both paid and free) without encryption that the end user implements and controls (truecrypt, etc) almost deserves what they get.

The only guarantee or sla that cloud services stand behind amounts to something like "oops, we screwed up, here's a few weeks of free service, we promise to do better and by the way, we're not liable for anything that may or may not have happened".

At both a personal and corporate level, no thanks.

 

Yeah I read about this a few days ago. Pretty crazy. Still going to use it -- I don't keep anything private on dropbox.

 

Agreed. A TrueCrypt archive file is the only thing I might trust to remote storage I didn't control. +rep