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Wait, Truecrypt? Haven't I seen warnings in the Truecrypt docs against keeping several copies of the same file? And doesn't Dropbox backup every little change? You might want to add a note on your security page that storing encrypted files on a service with automated backups, like Dropbox, may pose security risks.


Really? That'd be amazingly broken - consider any of the append-only log-structured filesystems currently in vogue on Linux, which are very likely to preserve multiple versions of any file being stored (right?). Not to mention normal backups.


How does the second part follow from the first? What is the 'security risk'?


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