“Files in your Dropbox Vault will move to a folder named Vault within your main Dropbox account. You won’t need a PIN to access this folder.”
Nice, great security
I feel like this is a canary, meaning somebody could be reading your sensitive private data already, and please don't store that thing with us.
As someone that uses Vault, this news sucks. What cloud storage alternatives are there that have a similar pin access secure files feature?
pCloud. Store your files in Europe or US, store them under an encrypted folder, if you really like them, pay for lifetime storage space or crypto feature.
I found a solution. I downloaded my Vault folder, installed Cryptomator, moved my files into it and now it synchs the encrypted files to Dropbox.
That's what I did as well. I'm now using a Cryptomator vault within Dropbox. Ironically, Dropbox dropping their vault has made my vault more secure now than it was. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Would have been nice to be given a reason as to why. We can probably guess but still…
I got a response to my Dropbox ticket asking why they're discontinuing their Vault…
"We discontinue Dropbox Vault primarily due to significant technical risks that could compromise the security we provide to our users.
We want to concentrate our efforts on further enhancing our existing security features."