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		utnick on April 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Publi... your 3rd example would not be an ideal use-case If one member of your affinity group gets arrested, the police would have access to all of your files plus all of the IP addresses of everyone in your affinity group

lifeguard on April 23, 2013 | [–]

You are mis-characterizing the use case. It is preventing censorship, not securing data.

dmix on April 23, 2013 | [–]

Well they could use a larger protective stack than just sync:

IP addresses = VPN

Files = Truecrypted

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