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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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1037 points 8bitben | 2 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.015s | source
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the_mitsuhiko ◴[09 Sep 16 18:28 UTC] No.12464832[source]▶
Why does dropbox need to bring up a fake dialog? They could do the same with the system one.
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1. elmigranto ◴[09 Sep 16 18:32 UTC] No.12464869[source]▶
They can't save your root password with system one.
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2. the_mitsuhiko ◴[09 Sep 16 21:54 UTC] No.12466323[source]▶
Why would they need to save the password?