Dropbox is "the enemy of national privacy"?

Snowden has had its own insistence on guarding against government surveillance, and this March, he had a virtual appearance at the SXSW Congress, saying that encryption and supervision would protect the public from private theft.

Recently, he again voice, pointed out that the well-known cloud storage and Synchronization Services Dropbox is a "huge threat to privacy", but also calls for more like SpiderOak, do not monitor user data "0" service-"0 know", that is, "Zero knowledge", A company that provides cloud services provides hosts and processes files, data, and information on behalf of clients, but does not have access to, and monitor, the content.

Snowden stressed that this April, Dropbox the former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice into the board, the latter may be "the most privacy officials"-she knew and strongly supported the differs wind electronic surveillance program.

SpiderOak was founded in Illinois State in 2006. Unlike Dropbox, although it provides storage, upload, synchronization and other functions, but it for these content is 0 access rights. Even if the security forces forced them to turn in the servers, these officials would have to go through the courts and ask the content owners-users-the keys directly.

Snowden firmly believe that all the companies eating cloud service this bowl of rice should follow the "0 know" guidelines.