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Last week I've change my password though the website, at work. On my home computer I have installed the Desktop client. I have not changed a thing and it was syncing without problems.
The same happened with my Dropbox App for my Android phone.
If I ever change the password of my account I was expecting the need to update it everywhere I use it. If, by any change, somebody uses a Desktop/Mobile client and I change my password, this person would be able to keep on using it without problems.
From my point of view, unless I'm missing something, this is a security flaw that must be corrected.
Hope to hear from Dropbox team.
If I change my google password, all devices connected to my google account will not allow me to access my gmail unless I enter the new password. I have two laptops (one windows and one macos) connected to dropbox (using client dropbox). Today, I chabnged my password going to the dropbox website. But my windows laptop (which has the old password)( is syning as usual as if nothing happened. This got to be a bad security flaw.
Even Microsoft has abandoned the obsolete security practice of changing passwords frequently and it's no longer part of their security baseline. It's been in the news for some time.
In this case, Dropbox handles this poorly. Everywhere else, changing a password in one place requires updating it everywhere else. It is far too easy to miss a place, and checking some random list (this is the first I've heard of it, and I've been using Dropbox for years) that isn't prominently displayed and part of the onboarding tutorial is both a UI mistake as well as a policy mistake. Companies should always act in the best security interests of customers, and allowing a token to continue operating is a direct contradiction.
Please revisit this decision.
Thank you.
Jane
Community Moderator @ Dropbox
dropbox.com/support
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