Exposure Dropbox can open user's privacy file

According to Science and technology blog Business Insider reported that the user proposed "upload to the cloud of privacy data Dropbox also want to open a look" query, Dropbox recently responded that the matter is true, and said the move is to generate a file "preview" version, user-friendly preview needs, Useful for users.

Earlier, a security expert at WNC InfoSec, a technology blogger, exposed the "leak" inside Dropbox cloud storage. The security expert is said to be testing a new service called "Honeydocs". The service provides a label to a user-specific document that, whenever someone opens the file, informs the owner of the file privately.

The InfoSec blogger wants to verify whether the current cloud storage service has opened its own private files in an unknown form, and then uploads a stack of files to his Dropbox account. Terrible thing happened, Honeydocs service told: all suffixes are ". Doc "files are Dropbox open.

"Dropbox allows users to open and preview files on their browsers," said a spokesman for Dropbox. The InfoSec blog post refers to a background operation process for Dropbox: Dropbox will automatically create a preview version of these files to make it easier for users to browse the files on their Dropbox. ”

Just two weeks ago, there were reports of Dropbox security risks, saying hackers could use Dropbox security vulnerabilities to control users ' entire PCs.

For most people, it is worthwhile to think that Dropbox provides a convenient way to preview, sacrificing some privacy. But this is unthinkable for employees who worry about leaking sensitive data. This also became the recent market research organization Fiberlink will Dropbox as "the first big enterprise disables application" reason.