It bothered the team so much so that they went out and built their own solution in Cloudifile, which was recently launched for OS X. The platform they built automatically encrypts data for secure cloud-sharing and local file storage. Currently, the company works to secure both local computer and Dropbox files. With Cloudifile users don’t need to double save their files, they only pick which files they want encrypted and it will automatically be sent to DropBox. As Turpitka says, services like Dropbox are storing all users important information in their data centers, this means that if someone hacks into their system criminals will have the data and files of 300 million people at their fingertips. In 2014 alone, more than 7 million Dropbox usernames and passwords were reported to be compromised. Cloudifile employs zero-knowledge security principles to ensure that they’re completely secure. Even if the platform were to be hacked, the users would not be affected because logins and passwords aren’t stored anywhere.
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