Keeping quotas and logs leaks information about what you are storing
Who does it leak information to? how? what information anyway? and why is any of this a problem?
For example, if you keep statistics on the largest file a user has, then it dramatically reduces the number of files that the user's "true" file can hide in.
I don't understand what you are saying. Are you claiming that Bitcasa is some kind of steganographic cloud?
and there a variety of subtle situations where the DMCA wouldn't help them
Like what? Are Bitcasa any more vulnerable than every cloud storage provider (other than Apple which, as you say, appears to be a special case)?
This shows that they have to know who has access to each file, even if they don't want to. That is a privacy issue that other services are immune to because they don't actually make the claims that bitcasa does.
Where are all these claims listed that you appear to be arguing against? All I see in their (very limited) marketing materials is a mention of client-side encryption, which they do indeed seem to implement.
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Keeping quotas and logs leaks information about what you are storing
Who does it leak information to? how? what information anyway? and why is any of this a problem?
For example, if you keep statistics on the largest file a user has, then it dramatically reduces the number of files that the user's "true" file can hide in.
I don't understand what you are saying. Are you claiming that Bitcasa is some kind of steganographic cloud?
and there a variety of subtle situations where the DMCA wouldn't help them
Like what? Are Bitcasa any more vulnerable than every cloud storage provider (other than Apple which, as you say, appears to be a special case)?
This shows that they have to know who has access to each file, even if they don't want to. That is a privacy issue that other services are immune to because they don't actually make the claims that bitcasa does.
the claims that bitcasa does
Where are all these claims listed that you appear to be arguing against? All I see in their (very limited) marketing materials is a mention of client-side encryption, which they do indeed seem to implement.