Per the private photo sharing, I don't think that a poor track record is a great excuse for including another potential security issue. At the very least, there should be an option to disable the preview icons.
I also wish they had include a pause button at the bottom of the menu. It would be unobtrusive and the lack of one makes this seem like more of a downgrade for me.
I would argue that from an engineering standpoint, Dropbox is more secure having been attacked in the past - they've had a review of their company policies, and worked on preventing issues that might crop up in the future.
That being said, an option to disable preview icons doesn't seem like a worthy use of time. After all, if you're signed into your Dropbox account on a PC, you probably have all of the data on that PC from Dropbox. If selective sync is on, an attacker could easily add folders as well. Security by obscurity isn't security.
> Per the private photo sharing, I don't think that a poor track record is a great excuse for including another potential security issue.
I didn't say anything of the sort, I was saying its stupid to put stuff online if you don't want it on the front page of a newspaper.
Disabling thumbnails, while I see it as a pointless feature I don't see it as being very hard to do, perhaps if these porn syncers at work cry out enough, it will be in the next version.
PS: allowing anyone complete access to anyone else's "private" files isn't doesn't constitute a poor track record, its absolutely shoddy as hell and speaks volumes about their likely "fix" and attitude towards security practices in general.
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Per the private photo sharing, I don't think that a poor track record is a great excuse for including another potential security issue. At the very least, there should be an option to disable the preview icons.
I also wish they had include a pause button at the bottom of the menu. It would be unobtrusive and the lack of one makes this seem like more of a downgrade for me.
I would argue that from an engineering standpoint, Dropbox is more secure having been attacked in the past - they've had a review of their company policies, and worked on preventing issues that might crop up in the future.
That being said, an option to disable preview icons doesn't seem like a worthy use of time. After all, if you're signed into your Dropbox account on a PC, you probably have all of the data on that PC from Dropbox. If selective sync is on, an attacker could easily add folders as well. Security by obscurity isn't security.
> Per the private photo sharing, I don't think that a poor track record is a great excuse for including another potential security issue.
I didn't say anything of the sort, I was saying its stupid to put stuff online if you don't want it on the front page of a newspaper.
Disabling thumbnails, while I see it as a pointless feature I don't see it as being very hard to do, perhaps if these porn syncers at work cry out enough, it will be in the next version.
PS: allowing anyone complete access to anyone else's "private" files isn't doesn't constitute a poor track record, its absolutely shoddy as hell and speaks volumes about their likely "fix" and attitude towards security practices in general.