Comment by djsumdog
10 years ago
What if Dropbox has an exploit they're unaware of. Someone finds a whole in Dropbox and boom, now they have accessibility access.
Even if you trust the software vendor, security concerns can cascade.
10 years ago
What if Dropbox has an exploit they're unaware of. Someone finds a whole in Dropbox and boom, now they have accessibility access.
Even if you trust the software vendor, security concerns can cascade.
This got downvoted and I'd like to know why. This was one of my first thoughts as well while reading the article: what if Dropbox gets hacked? Their client apparently has access to everything.
What if the hack pushes a rogue client? Or one CDN endpoint serves a malicious update? Or a little bit of code is sneaked into the development process? Or an employee gets sour? Or a million other things that you hope never happen. There is a reason we don't run apache/nginx/any networked service as root. (You don't, right?)