Dropbox Banning OPDS Users?

[avantman42]

Originally Posted by SirBC

In other words, if you do not publish somewhere on the web a link to any of the flies in your public folder, the odds of a search engine (or anyone else) finding any of those files is infinitesimally small.

As Harry says, security through obscurity is rarely a good idea. In this particular case, anyone that has the link could publish it or make it available. Or someone with access to their machine (not necessarily legitimate access) could make it available.

There's a saying about the chance of a secret being revealed being the square of the number of people that know it. The more people you give the link to, the more likely it is to end up with someone you didn't intend to have it.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by JCSullivan

It scares me to know that there are teams out there with access to my stuff (see OP's remarks) but that's the downside of technological improvements.

If you use any of the services in the chart you cite, there are no teams with access to "your stuff." All of those services encrypt "your stuff", now if you declare items to be shared publicly then anyone could have access.

Originally Posted by JCSullivan

Anyway, then I wondered what does all this cost so I scrolled all the way down to below the green advertising to find a link to the "explore pricing". That's bloody sneaky if you ask me - to place links about pricing down there - no mention of this anywhere near the top of the page.

How is it sneaky to offer you a 5GB account for free, then share the pricing on other paid plans?

Originally Posted by JCSullivan

Now, if someone would do a comparison chart about ALL the pricing.

Look around and you can find this info. If you check out the video casts (also available as audio podcasts and transcibed text) of Security Now episodes 349 and 350 Steve Gibson goes over most Cloud storage plans, their security and their costs in detail.

Originally Posted by JCSullivan

In truth and in my opinion these are nothing but glorified megaupload, hotfile, rapidshare, etc.

In truth you don't fully understand what you're talking about. Half of the items in the chart are file syncing and the other are backup solutions. You can abuse any service but none of the services in the chart have their primary usage as file sharing.

Originally Posted by HarryT

DB would seem to be entirely justified in taking this action.

I agree Dropbox was in the right.

Originally Posted by HarryT

Given the issues with MegaUpload, etc, it's hardly surprising that they're being vigilant in their monitoring of the use to which their public folders are being put.

The case cited talked about receiving a DMCA notice, Dropbox doesn't have the right to create a notice since they don't own the works. This means that Dropbox received a DMCA take down notice and simply complied.

[JCSullivan]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

If you use any of the services in the chart you cite, there are no teams with access to "your stuff." All of those services encrypt "your stuff", now if you declare items to be shared publicly then anyone could have access.



How is it sneaky to offer you a 5GB account for free, then share the pricing on other paid plans?



Look around and you can find this info. If you check out the video casts of Security Now episodes 349 and 350 Steve Gibson goes over most Cloud storage plans, their security and their costs in detail.



In truth you don't fully understand what you're talking about. Half of the items in the chart are file syncing and the other are backup solutions. You can abuse any service but none of the services in the chart have their primary usage as file sharing.

But it is obvious you DO and I shall leave it at that.