They clearly lie in their terms and conditions about encryption, or use a very shady loophole about encryption keys, and no one should ever trust them to store any data. Is it safe to assume that all the data stored in dropbox has been scanned and analyzed by NSA? I wont be surprised if NSA backs up the data you ever stored on dropbox.

When you log in to and choose high security mode we. 'Dropbox is a big company and it wont do it'. Every cubby has its own encryption key thats further encrypted by your password. Markdown is designed to be human readable. If you store some of your company data, whats preventing dropbox from selling that to your competitor? Markdown is widely used by sites like Reddit and GitHub and not going away anytime soon. Lets say you download a movie and store it there, whats preventing Dropbox from turning you in for violation of the copyright act? Same with music. While CP are pretty scummy people, the bigger lesson here is that Dropbox should not be trusted to store anything at all. While in its terms it says 'we store your file data using 256-bit AES encryption and use an SSL/TLS secure tunnel to transfer files between you and us.' - This is clearly revealed as a blatant lie. Dropbox apparently scans all its data for CP content and hands over suspected users to law enforcement.

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