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jvasileff's avatar
jvasileff
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

Feedback on the new desktop app "ignore files" feature.

@Daphne that's great news! I look forward to trying it out. But it would also be nice to have a configuration file, like ".dropboxignore", to list paths or patterns to exclude. The reason is that e...
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Alexander_V's avatar
Alexander_V
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

You can perform MITM attack on Dropbox process an hijack requests to read and write to HDD. Basically I think it's possible to create own wrapper HDD driver that will provide "per-process" controll of what visible/writable. Maybe looking into open-source NTFS implementation will give a hint. Anyway I'm always lazy in doing such stuff but maybe somebody has a good programmer friend who could research on that idea.

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