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Re: Dropbox security

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
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.

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.
Gotcha. Interestingly, I'd never heard of drop box until I went back to school, and hadn't heard of any of the other sync-services until this article.

TANSTAAFL indeed.
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