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Process Monitor[1] will show you every filesystem call Dropbox is making. (Like strace.) That should confirm or refute this article's claims. (You could also j
by quotemstr 12y ago
Process Monitor[1] will show you every filesystem call Dropbox is making. (Like strace.) That should confirm or refute this article's claims.
(You could also just collect an ETW trace and analyze it in xperf (err, WPA, of course) yourself.)
[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896645.aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896645.aspx
- beaugunderson 12y agoI copied a file in C:\ and saw Dropbox access it a few moments later, followed by network activity: http://cl.ly/image/443Y1S092g1R http://cl.ly/image/443Y1S092g1R
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- poizan42 12y agoUhm no. It calls QueryBasicInformation and closes it again right after.
- beaugunderson 12y agoDo you think QueryBasicInformation is a mischaracterization of the word "access"?
- quotemstr 12y agoQueryBasicInformation is like a subset of stat(2). It can't access a file's contents. While I'd prefer Dropbox not to go looking at file metadata on my whole device, I'd chalk this one up to over-eager coding and not some kind of data-smuggling backdoor.