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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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new299 ◴[] No.12463925[source]
Dropbox circumventing security restrictions (albeit for legit reasons) is particularly worrying because they have board members who support warrentless surveillance.

In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/). Personally, with a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data, and I wont be using their service.

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anf ◴[] No.12464192[source]
What are the legit reasons? Isn't it just reading and writing files to the Dropbox folder?
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1. _razvan ◴[] No.12464242[source]
The accessibility features of the OS are used by Dropbox to implement the Dropbox Badge / Project Harmony feature.
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2. fredoliveira ◴[] No.12464272[source]
These should definitely be opt-in, however (I don't use the badge), and I would definitely argue that the way they get on the accessibility list is deceptive at best.
3. angryasian ◴[] No.12464680[source]
I would say that notifying the user on how to do it through the security panel is the legit way to do it.