How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

Dropbox trying to find ways to push the platform is a good thing not a bad thing.

If anything Apple have put so many restrictions on OSX and isn't pushing for much innovation on their side to allow people to build ever more powerful apps.

I understand general security concerns but I don't understand the critique of a company like Dropbox. They are doing the user er service not a disservice by finding a balance between pushing the platform forward while still taking your security concerns into account.

I would personally be more concerned with the fact that Apple haven't done anything fundamental for the osx platform in quite a while which is the exact opposite of what they have done for iOS.

Dropbox is using cached root privs that it now claims it doesn't even need to force itself into full control of your machine, on the back of an accessibility exploit, actively disregards explicit user actions taken to remove it, does this all via SQL injection, and if all of the above doesn't meet the definition of malware, I don't know what does.

All this from a company who recently had one of the largest credential breaches in the history of the Internet

and you think it's okay to "push the platform"?!???!

It's pretty popular these days to say "Delete your account" online. If this wasn't an accidental knee jerk response, please go one step farther and delete any professional involvement you have with software or technology implementation. You don't understand security concerns, nor does your poorly rehashed half-argument about OS X explain why this would be okay on any platform.

A bit emphatic, but if those goes to the greys, so be it. HN is clearly frequented by people with meaningful input in business, product, and engineering decisions. This kind of scapegoat deflection needs to be highlighted as an unacceptable security practice not justified by anything that seems to qualify as entrepreneurial disruption.