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neilBar
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3 years ago
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compromised? stolen mac timemachine disk - what does "localdomain" mean in 'connected devices' list?

Hi I'm bit worried, my mac time machine discs were stolen last week (unencrypted) so I changed my dropbox password (and many others) 10 am this morning, I was prompted to check the devices connecte...
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    Jay
    3 years ago

    Hi neilBar, the names don't really mean much, since this is the name pulled from the device itself when first making the connection to the Dropbox server. 

     

    If you hover over the i icon, you can see the IP address of the device itself. If it matches one of your own, then it could be another device you have on your premises, or immediately location.

     

    If you don't recognize the device, you can simply remove it from your account. If you're on a paid plan, you can also remotely wipe the Dropbox folder on that device at the same time.

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neilBar
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Mark 

"In that case your account has possibly been compromised and set up as a new user (from the stolen drives?). "

yes, that was my fear.

 

i feel that the .localdomain part of "ChristopersMBP4.localdomain" MIGHT be a clue to the device location.

Still can't find out what that means.

 

anyhoo I now have DFA and new passwords but its not a good sign for the data in my local dropbox folder (in the time machine backups) 

 

thanks N

 

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Rich
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3 years ago
neilBar wrote:

i feel that the .localdomain part of "ChristopersMBP4.localdomain" MIGHT be a clue to the device location.

It's not. The .local and .localdomain just refer to a local computer network. They have nothing to do with location.

 

You won't be able to determine the exact location of that device with the information available to you through Dropbox (even if you opened a support case). The closest you'll get is the location that you see listed in your screenshot, which is based only on the geolocation of the IP address, and that location would just be the address listed on the IP registration, which would be the data center or HQ of the ISP that owns the IP address. For instance, the location that Dropbox has listed for the device I'm typing this on is a city more than 45 minutes away.

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