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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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tomku ◴[] 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. tigershark ◴[] No.12468163[source]
No, it's not that the point. The point is that they somehow store your sudo password to set again the accessibility permission at every login. I honestly don't see why the title should be considered a click-bait, it looks pretty much very accurate to me.