Dropbox Accused of Lying About Security

lee1 writes "Dropbox faces a possible FTC investigation because of misleading statements it has made about the privacy and security of its 25 million users' files. The cloud storage company previously claimed that it was impossible for its employees to access file contents, but in fact, as the encryption keys are in their possession, this is false. The complaint (PDF) points out that their false security claims gave Dropbox a competitive advantage over other firms offering similar services who actually did provide secure encryption."

Comments

Re:Where's Al Gore and his "Lock Box"?

[Omnifarious]

First, you are wrong. The data in your account is interesting to a whole host of people, regardless of how insignificant you are. Maybe there's a credit card number in there. Maybe there's clues to your password. Maybe your social graph is interesting to a marketer. In this age, even an insignificant person's data is of interest to someone.

Secondly, DropBox lied. Plain and simple. They made a security claim that wasn't true and sold their service based on it. If you really want to live in a world where it's perfectly acceptable for people to lie about their services in order to get your business, I wish you well.