{"id":3398,"date":"2011-05-13T20:07:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T01:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2011-05-13T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T01:07:44","slug":"soghoian-dropbox-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/soghoian-dropbox-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Soghoian Files Complaint to FTC About Dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/05\/dropbox-ftc\/\">Wired<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/05\/dropbox-ftc\/\"><p>The complaint alleges that at least two of Dropbox&rsquo;s competitors, <a href=\"https:\/\/spideroak.com\/\">SpiderOak<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wuala.com\/\">Wuala<\/a>, make security promises similiar to those of Dropbox, but actually can&rsquo;t get at the data because they don&rsquo;t hold the encryption keys. That means those services have to spend more on storage, because they can&rsquo;t detect duplicate files stored by different users. That, according to the complaint, lets Dropbox promise total security without paying the costs, while putting its competitors at a disadvantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubfire.net\">Christopher Soghoian<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2011\/05\/12\/facebook-google\">Facebook\/Google<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/paranoia.dubfire.net\/2006\/10\/paging-osama-please-meet-your-party-at.html\">boarding pass<\/a> stories. I discussed the Dropbox security issue <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/20\/dropboxs-lack-of-security\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired: The complaint alleges that at least two of Dropbox&rsquo;s competitors, SpiderOak and Wuala, make security promises similiar to those of Dropbox, but actually can&rsquo;t get at the data because they don&rsquo;t hold the encryption keys. That means those services have to spend more on storage, because they can&rsquo;t detect duplicate files stored by different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}