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Florian A.1's avatar
Florian A.1
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Why does Dropbox ask for your computer password

Hi, I just came across this blog post detailing some, shall we say, unorthodox ways Dropbox is circumventing OS X security features and tricking users into sharing their admin password: http://appl...
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John B.194's avatar
John B.194
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

I got a reply from support. Took them 133 hours instead of 24-48 for paying customers. And the answer was a non response that they would pass it on to development. 

So disappointing...

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