4 ms·
It scared the crap out of me when Dropbox asked if it wanted to save my screenshot. Since when did it have access to things like that? I had a phone interview w
by laxatives 12y ago
It scared the crap out of me when Dropbox asked if it wanted to save my screenshot. Since when did it have access to things like that? I had a phone interview with Dropbox a few weeks ago and they mentioned a ton of new products that seemed vaguely offputting as well. After the screenshot prompt, I immediately uninstalled Dropbox, but after a few days I realized it had a bunch of useful backups so I ended up reinstalling it.
- sp332 12y agoIf the dropbox program is running under your user account, it has the same permissions you do. Unless you're on Linux and have restricted it via AppArmor.
- mike-cardwell 12y agoEven with AppArmor in place, it still has access to read every key you press in any other X11 app. Here's how I lock down Dropbox on my system: https://grepular.com/Protecting_Your_GNU_Linux_System_from_Dropbox https://grepular.com/Protecting_Your_GNU_Linux_System_from_D...
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- chaz 12y agoIsn't that behavior -- asking to do something before it does it -- the behavior that you'd like? I would be upset if it went ahead and did that, and then I discovered the feature later.
- laxatives 12y agoMaybe if I wanted to save my screen shots. I didn't want that behavior at all and it surprised me that it had access things outside of the well-defined folder I had already known about.