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Security is fungible. You're applying some subjective standard that divides what constitutes a hack and what doesn't. If I had to guess, you wouldn't treat a bu
by jasonzemos 14y ago
Security is fungible. You're applying some subjective standard that divides what constitutes a hack and what doesn't. If I had to guess, you wouldn't treat a buffer overflow where some code was executed the same way. This is arbitrary.
Considering a dropbox employee, corporate information, and internal security practices are on the line here: I think the author made the fair, ethical call.
- sillysaurus 14y agoNo, the article is flat-out wrong. "Dropbox got hacked" means their system security is breachable by a malicious attacker. This is simply not true.
- yen223 14y agoI would think that if the attacker had access to a Dropbox employee's account, which in turn gave him/her access to user accounts, that would constitute a security breach.
- sillysaurus 14y agoif the attacker had access to a Dropbox employee's account, which in turn gave him/her access to user accounts ... That didn't happen. The employee account merely contained a list of email addresses.
- aprendo 14y agoUser account data. Not as bad. Still awful. Hacked is a perfectly valid term to use. Dropbox allowed their employees to have user data just lying around and their policy on how employees have to treat that data seems either ineffective or non-existant. I don’t really care that a human and not a piece of software written by a human was the point of failure here. Hack seems like the perfectly applicable term.
- arrrg 14y agoThat’s not really a response, is it? User account data could be accessed – because Dropbox was unable to protect your data. That’s not quite as awful a access to user account but it’s still awful.