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this is arash from dropbox. a similar thing happened to us a couple years ago and mattcutts helped resolve it pretty quickly ( https://twitter.com/mattcutts ). I would try to reach…

hmmm, I think it's fairly common practice amongst similar software (i.e. firefox, chrome, etc.) to use system time as a signal that you may be connecting to a server that has an ou…

that's just SSL cert validation :-)

hi all, we've been reading all the feedback carefully and made a change to licensing section to clarify what we meant. the change is highlighted on our blog: http://blog.dropbox.co…

I know - right? :-). (wladimir wrote dropship)

No DMCA takedown requests were sent to GitHub. We simply nicely asked the author of Dropship to take down the link and he fully understood our position and took the code down. The …

We didn't remove the file - we simply banned public access to it.

This is Arash from Dropbox. We removed the ability to share the project source code because it enables communications with our servers in a manner that is a violation of our Terms …

you're right in that all these things are theoretically possible in a system where the encryption key is not stored client-side. I don't know of many services that advertise every …

basically, the government could try to make that type of request independent of backend implementation. what protects users against such an obtrusive action (effectively violating …

de-duplication doesn't make users any more vulnerable to intrusive government actions. today, a government agency could ask any online service to provide the names of all users who…

it's unclear to me what statements we're making are 'not true'. if you don't believe our statements, I'm not going to be able to convince you to trust us over the discourse in this…

cryptographic signatures of files are never transmitted over plaintext. yes, the current incarnation of the mobile apps don't encrypt the names of the files but we are working on a…

we take as firm as stance as possible on user privacy (google faces and fights these very issues) the government needs to comply with the provisions of the electronic communication…

at the expense of conveniences like web access, document previewing, simple sharing, etc. - sure :-). if your answer to the web access concern is: derive the key from the password,…

hi there, arash from dropbox here. all data is (as we state in the referenced help article) encrypted before it's stored on the backend. all data on dropbox can be made shareable a…

hi there, arash from dropbox here. all data is (as we state in the referenced help article) encrypted before it's stored on the backend. I'm not sure why you're concluding that de-…

It wasn't a premature optimization. It was both a better experience for the user (saves bw/reuploads for the user) and was simpler to implement (can keep things in one global bucke…

Hi all, Arash from Dropbox here. We understand the concern that the government could try to guess whether a particular file has been uploaded to Dropbox based on processing times a…

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the iOS update just hit the store a few minutes ago

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I should probably already know this (and we'll email you about it), but I was wondering how you're currently keeping your dropbox index up to date. our existing APIs don't make it …