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I know a few users here use it...It might be worth not relying on it quite so much for sensitive stuff...

I've only ever used it for photos when burning a DVD would be wasteful, and involve me getting off my ass to hand it over.
It never occurred to me to use it for anything that had a potential security aspect to it.

The information stored on the server is also encrypted using a key that Dropbox know, so they can decrypt the data and pass it on at will.

Any cloud service which does the encryption on the server, or sends the key to the server is insecure.

Wuala sounds better (from Lacie), they encrypt the data on the client, before sending it into the cloud. The same goes for Carbonite - although that is more a backup solution than a remote synchronsation system.

Jungledisk is also worth a look, if security is an issue. If you insist on using drop box, make sure you encrypt all data locally, before allowing it to sync with Dropbox.

I suppose there's some pretty personal stuff on my dropbox, but if someone wants to get their kicks from looking at my holiday snaps or CV I'm really not that bothered

I don't have any security sensitive stuff on there. Considering I have dropbox on my phone and my PC at work, it would be quite silly. If I did, I'd probably RAR it up with a reasonably strong password. I think RAR is only crackable by brute-force?

I may have to have words with a client, just to put them in the picture.