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Re: Dropbox security

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Originally Posted by Woody Leonhard
He argues with some authority that Dropbox has an unfair advantage over competing cloud file-sharing services by maintaining its own keys (which allows its programs and employees access to your data).
I don't understand how this is an unfair advantage? Is the claim that dropbox security is sub-par simply because employees have a process to go through in order to access the file contents?

Using COTS cloud services, especially free services, to store sensitive proprietary information for a company has been a known no-no in the IT industry since the word "cloud" was even coined. For anything sensitive, the best philosophy isn't centered around if something gets hacked, but rather a matter of when it will become hacked (hi Sony!). Sure, we lose agility by the inability to automatically sync files, or have files available anywhere -- but the tradeoff is well worth it for trade secrets.

For the really paranoid, there's also the good-ol' trusty IronKey USB sticks. 4GB of 256-bit AES on a key chain FTW.
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