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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: 0.241s | 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. dfabulich ◴[09 Sep 16 16:58 UTC] No.12464020[source]▶
"Accessibility authorization" sounds benign, but the "authorization" it gives itself is full control of the Mac via the Accessibility API.

So, "How Dropbox uses the root access you give it during installation to gain full control of your Mac without triggering the usual popup."