At 02:14 AM 9/13/2013, stef wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 07:58:17AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Dropbox is pulling a Skype.
no it's not, it's generating thumbnails. also this is advertising.
Unless Dropbox has changed what they do, I wouldn't expect them to be generating thumbnails of my documents, at least not beyond the level of taking "foo.doc" and using a MS Word icon for it. Yes, I know gmail is different, but I would have expected Dropbox to leave my bits alone. At $DAYJOB, the firewall blocks access to Dropbox, because Corporate Security doesn't trust them with our own proprietary information, much less with customer data or sensitive personal info like employee SSNs. It's a useful servivce, so we've got our own Dropbox-clone which we can use instead.