driverdan/dropship
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Instantly transfer files between Dropbox accounts using only their hashes.
4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2011-05-03 · latest 2015-03-03
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…knowledge of the hashes of its chunks, and Dropbox has since changed their deduplication. See https://github.com/driverdan/dropship
comment by jjarmoc · 2015-03-03 · in Dropbox Is Probably Not Stealing Your Files -
Edit: I now find out that wladimir has had this idea and shipped code on the same idea: https://github.com/driverdan/dropship I have wondered for a while if it could be done without the API by hooking into whatever checksumming is done…
comment by coob · 2012-04-03 · in New Dropbox API Features: /delta, /copy_ref, OS X SDK -
What's yours stays yours. Unless somebody knows the hash. https://github.com/driverdan/dropship
comment by pwpwp · 2011-07-07 · in What's yours stays yours. - Dropbox Terms Update -
As I've understood it, it's already (partially) reverse-engineered by dropship. https://github.com/driverdan/dropship/blob/master/dropbox/me... Still, I see no reason to use Droxbox servers when you could setup your own.
comment by drdaeman · 2011-05-03 · in Building Your Own Dropbox Equivalent