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Thank you. I am speechless on the behaviour from DropBox. I wonder why I have never heard of this and I do not remember any major security scandal regarding D
by trymas 7y ago
Thank you.
I am speechless on the behaviour from DropBox.
I wonder why I have never heard of this and I do not remember any major security scandal regarding DropBox stealing your admin passwords, but maybe that information just went around me for some reason.. :)
EDIT: I wonder how this was implemented, I imagine that any app, can recreate a pixel perfect dialog imitating system dialog asking for password and steal your sensitive information, though how can app add itself to accessibility list programatically? I am not knowledgable of MacOS API and somehow I think apps should be prevented to be able to do this on their own. Was it a MacOS security bug? What else DropBox did "under the hood" with admin password that we do not know of yet?
- pilif 7y agoIt was the OS dialog which allows apps to customize the prompt text. No need to fake anything. That article was wrong. Check the HN discussion from back in the day