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That's a great point, Dropbox totally had a security bug that one time.

• dmbass 15y ago
  In my estimation, if their system was decently designed, instead of granting anyone access to everything, nobody should have been granted access to anything if there is an authentication problem. Can you possibly imagine a worse system than they currently use (that still attempts to provide security)?
  • ceejayoz 15y ago
    How do you know what they "currently used"? Do you really think their authentication really defaults to "yes" still?
  • funkah 15y ago
    Depends on what you keep in there. For a lot of people, losing access to their documents would probably be worse than the (very small) risk of someone else seeing them. But anyway I don't think a discussion of Dropbox's security model is very germane here.
• vogonj 15y ago
  the security bug was a lack of authentication that rendered Dropbox nearly useless for its core purpose of securely storing files, that got pushed to production and _stayed there for multiple hours_. giving Dropbox some guff for it is completely reasonable.