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Dropbox sharing your data without consent? Nothing new. I've been using dropbox paper for a year now and only recently found out that by default all docs are sh
by tempaccount777 8y ago
Dropbox sharing your data without consent? Nothing new. I've been using dropbox paper for a year now and only recently found out that by default all docs are shareable. That means, if you log into dropbox -> open a dropbox-paper doc -> Logout you're not safe. Anybody with your browsing history can re-access the document you've been working on even after you log out. So essentially if you're using dropbox paper on a shared computer or on a public/library computer and logout, people will still have accesss to your docs that you've worked on. Only way to turn this off, is to manually click the 'invite' button and uncheck the share option for each and every document seperately. I had some personal/sensitive info on a few docs and was shocked to learn of this. Completely unacceptable from dropbox!
- ebikelaw 8y agoIf you are leaving browser history in public libraries, you have bigger problems than Dropbox Paper.
- j_koreth 8y agoCare to expand? I wouldn't usually think of browser history as particularly sensitive.
- ebikelaw 8y agoThere are a _LOT_ of services that treat the URL as a secret. If you're leaving these URLs in your browser history on a public computer other people can access them. For example, the images served up by Google Photos, that have the form lh3.googleusercontent.com/[kilobytes of base64-encoded spew], can be accessed by anybody having the URL. So if you use a public computer to access these, even though you need to be authenticated to browse Google Photos, and despite the fact that you conscientiously logged out, anybody with access to the history can still look at your photos. This is not be any means the only such example.