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Is DropBox really secure?
There has been something that has me baffled. Increasingly I've seen situations where I can't get a file transferred to a customer because of security (we've got an FTP site, but they're not able to get to it -- local security policy has FTP transfer blocked). For the sake of securty they've pretty much blocked attached files on E-mail too. And then the suggestion comes to use DropBox -- from their IT staff... I don't get it. From what I've been able to determine, it's real easy to set up -- just install software, designate a folder you want to share, then drop the file into the shared folder. It handles transfer via Internet automagically through a tunnelling protocol... Hrm.. a folder on YOUR system that you SHARE on the Internet -- using a tunnelling protocol (which allows it to work around port lockdown) -- how is THAT supposed to be MORE secure?
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