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Florian A.1
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Why does Dropbox ask for your computer password

Hi, I just came across this blog post detailing some, shall we say, unorthodox ways Dropbox is circumventing OS X security features and tricking users into sharing their admin password: http://appl...
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Robert S.'s avatar
Robert S.
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10 years ago

... thousands of *extra* tickets this issue caused...

Seems a bit of an excessive estimate, probably more like a couple of dozen or so.

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