[liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?

[bill.stewart@pobox.com (Bill Stewart)]

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.