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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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1037 points 8bitben | 1 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tomku ◴[09 Sep 16 16:25 UTC] No.12463685[source]▶
Non-clickbait title: "How Dropbox uses the root access that you give it during installation to give itself Accessibility authorization without triggering the usual popup".
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1. Dylan16807 ◴[09 Sep 16 16:55 UTC] No.12463995[source]▶
That skips the important point that it's not supposed to be possible for even root to do this without a prompt.