| Hey guys, I helped build this feature and just wanted to say we're as concerned about privacy and security as you are. A couple specifics that might help: * No feature is for everyone -- this is opt-in in the strictest sense. (And, since you pick the files/directories, as fine-grained as you want.) * You can disable a link anytime: from the the sharing tab (https://www.dropbox.com/share), click "Linked Items" to see all your links and disable anything. * 3 means of sharing (shared folders, a public dir, and sharing links) gives you more control over privacy, not less. * Similar to etherpad links, the shortened db.tt links are public but unfeasible to guess. We've heard a few concerns about the 6-digit hashes -- well, as more links are shared, don't assume the hash will stay at 6 digits :) can't get into details but we do a few more things to make link fishing near-impossible. |
I feel like all that private data is one click away from being public. Anyone passing by my computer can right click and change a folder to a web page, when they get back to their PC, download everything.
At least before there was somewhat of a barrier, though narrow, it was there.
Do the "linked" files at least get a new bold icon with a globe on it or something so I know it's public. Do I get an email when a folder is made public? Something? What if a malicious script is run on my computer that just makes everything public in my Dropbox folder?