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Re:Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to... by sp332 on Friday July 18, 2014 @10:00AM (#8053035)
If the dropbox program is running under your user account, it has the same permissions you do. Unless you're on Linux and have restricted it via AppArmor.
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Re:Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to... by mike-cardwell on Friday July 18, 2014 @10:51AM (#8053304)
Even with AppArmor in place, it still has access to read every key you press in any other X11 app. Here's how I lock down Dropbox on my system:

https://grepular.com/Protecting_Your_GNU_Linux_System_from_D...

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