[rkalla]

I think the evasiveness is intentional. With 25 million users (http://www.webpronews.com/dropbox-user-base-up-to-25-million...) I think Dropbox likely finds itself friends with govt entities that didn't previously care it existed and would encourage them to keep things the way they are as opposed to going the tarsnap route.

I know this comment could be dismissed as tin-foiley, but spending a week here reading stories on FBI wire taps or bills passing through congress and I don't think this is much of a stretch by any means.

I imagine this is a (necessity?) of modern day, massive-scale online services like this... or at least it becomes one once they hit critical mass.

For example, I would expect Facebook has a back-channel for law enforcement to view profiles unfettered by privacy settings. I'm not saying I have proof they do, but would anyone really be surprised if a service with 700 million users globally was in-bed with security agencies?

I suppose I just expect that now.

[EwanG]

You don't have to be tin hat to worry that if "some" Dropbox admins have access to your files, then your files are at risk of being hacked just like what happened with Sony and their PSN. If a company has your stuff, and someone there has the key to your stuff, you'd better be sure it's as important to them as it is to you. Since that is rarely the case, I prefer not to give anyone else the key.