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Re: Dropbox security

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
I don't understand how this is an unfair advantage?
Because if they can un-encrypt your data, they can "deduplicate" files and use delta storage for large files, which takes less storage. He mentioned that in the article.


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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
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?
Yes. He mentioned other companies in the article which have no access to decryption.


Please note: I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with the above, simply explaining what I think he meant.