This is a fine post, but all I can think about this situation is "or, you could just reverse the Dropbox client and find out for sure".
Speculation about Dropbox stealing files seems premised on the idea that you can't know what the client is doing. But that's not even close to true. People reverse much, much harder targets than Dropbox for fun. If any version of Dropbox published to its user base ever did anything like this, we'll all know soon enough.
Speculation about Dropbox stealing files seems premised on the idea that you can't know what the client is doing. But that's not even close to true. People reverse much, much harder targets than Dropbox for fun. If any version of Dropbox published to its user base ever did anything like this, we'll all know soon enough.