←back to thread

How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

(applehelpwriter.com)
1037 points 8bitben | 1 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
Show context
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.
replies(2): >>12464869 #>>12466726 #
elmigranto ◴[09 Sep 16 18:32 UTC] No.12464869[source]▶
They can't save your root password with system one.
replies(1): >>12466323 #
1. the_mitsuhiko ◴[09 Sep 16 21:54 UTC] No.12466323[source]▶
Why would they need to save the password?