{"id":191,"date":"2011-04-19T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2011-04-19T10:22:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:22:55","slug":"dropbox-decryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox Decryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular online storage and backup provider Dropbox has changed their terms of service &#8211; apparently they want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dropbox-updates-security-terms-of-service-to-say-it-can-decrpyt-files-if-the-government-asks-it-to-2011-4\">reserve the right to decrypt<\/a> the data that you&#8217;re storing on their service if the US government asks them to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Independent of how intrusive this must be for non-US users, it&#8217;s an interesting reminder of how little control you have over data that resides &#8220;in the cloud&#8221;. Don&#8217;t worry, though. I&#8217;m sure that the software and process for decrypting user data is very secure, and complex, and will never be used by an outside intruder or a disgruntled insider. Safe as houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular online storage and backup provider Dropbox has changed their terms of service &#8211; apparently they want to reserve the right to decrypt the data that you&#8217;re storing on their service if the US government asks them to do so. Independent of how intrusive this must be for non-US users, it&#8217;s an interesting reminder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}