OT: Drop Box - is it secure?

[Kevin Fries]

On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 13:38 -0700, keith smith wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Someone wants me to share some confidential information by uploading
> documents to his Drop Box account.  My gut tells me this is not a
> secure was to transfer confidential information.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks in advance!  

I would treat it just like you would treat any insecure file transfer,
such as email, FTP, etc.

Personally, if I were afraid of the contents being made public, I would
encrypt the file.

Kevin