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>you trust dropbox with your files, and you trust them with a kernel blob implementing the filesystem, but you don't trust them to silently have accessibility r
by DINKDINK 10y ago
>you trust dropbox with your files, and you trust them with a kernel blob implementing the filesystem, but you don't trust them to silently have accessibility rights?
The problem here isn't that you don't trust them to have accessibility rights, it's that Dropbox has phished your root password, stored it, and will continue to modify your system to meet it's desired operating criteria.
- plttn 10y ago>- We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple). Direct from the DB engineer at top of thread.
- DINKDINK 10y agoIf that's the case, How is it that the accessibility preferences are changed without root authorization?
- gumby 10y agoPresumably with one of the suid executables you authorized when you typed your root password to the dialogue. And one of them is writable by anyone -- great security, guys!
- Dylan16807 10y agoDoes OS X not clear suid when a file is written to?