How Dropbox hacks your mac

Re:How Dropbox hacks your mac by SchizoDuckie on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:54PM (#12458162)

tl;dr: When dropbox asks for your admin password it stores it in it's own cache to keep having access and perform admin-level tasks.

It's not a hack, it's you giving away your credentials on a screen that's designed to look like a system password prompt.

A Dark UI pattern at most, and a security leak whenever someone hacks the dropbox auth storage. Not a hack, just clickbait.

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Re:How Dropbox hacks your mac by angryasian on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:13PM (#12458674)

It could be a form of social hacking. They claim they need these permissions but actually don't. Who knows what they are actually doing in this case.

>The general function of social hacking is to gain access to restricted information or to a physical space without proper permission.

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Re:How Dropbox hacks your mac by toddmorey on Friday September 09, 2016 @07:49AM (#12461276)

I am not going to call caching your admin password so it can continually re-enable the feature skirting official APIs just a dark UI pattern.

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