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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: 0.206s | 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. odbol_ ◴[09 Sep 16 21:23 UTC] No.12466157[source]▶
Lots of people getting mad at Dropbox for this, which is fine, but should we not also get mad at Apple for making their "security" system so easy to circumvent?

Being an app developer that was bitten in the ass by the new "security" in El Crapitan, and having spent 2 weeks trying to get our app back to normal, this makes me really mad that Apple makes us developers jump through all these hoops for security that isn't actually secure anyway.