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really? you've already determined that it's running on an ec2 instance, but it's somehow "suspicious" that the user-agent is libreoffice? and you're a "securit
by milkshakes 13y ago
really?
you've already determined that it's running on an ec2 instance, but it's somehow "suspicious" that the user-agent is libreoffice? and you're a "security researcher" but "curious if this is an automated process"? please.
sure, dropbox might owe an explanation (even though you certainly gave them permission to do this in their TOS), and you can call me cynical and jaded, but this seems like pretty shameless FUD that appears to be tied to an effort to shill a new product.
EDIT: first i thought this was written by the HoneyDocs founder. now i'm actually unsure who the author is.
- gjulianm 13y agoThe author of this post seems to be a friend of the founder: http://blog.threatagent.com/2013/09/whos-that-peeking-in-my-dropbox.html http://blog.threatagent.com/2013/09/whos-that-peeking-in-my-...
- danielweber 13y agoThere's really no need to attack him.
- milkshakes 13y agoi'm not attacking him as a person, i'm attacking his actions, specifically in this case his shamelessly disingenuous linkbait guerrilla marketing masquerading as a public service announcement
- brown9-2 13y agoIt really does read like an unsubtle add for the honey service.
- hoffcoder 13y agoIt really does not matter if there is something more serious like a vulnerability in the question. And so what if the link was a covert advertisement, the community is still benefitted if a popular product is put under the scanner. It is a win-win.
- milkshakes 13y agoexcept for the part where there is no actual vulnerability, it was actually a design decision[1], and the author of the article was raising ridiculous scaremongering questions that he knew the answers to in order to attract more attention. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6377712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6377712