For the same reason I don't make use of facebook, delete apps that requires a facebook and/or a Google account and doesn't enable me to login besides these options. I'll regret the day that I might not care about this any longer, that I'm willingly stop using my brains and surrender myself entirely to commercial exploitation and accept that I've become a slave for a company by providing them personal information about myself and by agreeing that "to think yourself" is something one should not do. Google makes sure that all the adds on websites, in one way or the other, has something to do with camera's.
For the same very reason I rarely using Google as a search engine, simply because I truly hate the so called targeting adds, as if I'm considdered to be a f*beep*ing monkey that would be interested in camera's for weeks just because I was searching for one at one given day.
My file transfers since switching to Google Drive have more than tripled!I'll never move my documents to Google Drive which enables the company to look inside within each document for commercial exploitation usage. However in all seriousness, I abandoned Dropbox ages ago and migrated to Google Drive and have never looked back.ĭropbox are "ok" no doubt but lack so many features and compared to Google are seriously slow.
DROPBOX FOR MAC OS SIERRA UPDATE
MacOS Sierra was publicly released today as a free update on the Mac App Store. For more information on Dropbox Mac permissions, visit our help center. The same will apply for older versions of OS X in the coming weeks. To do so, follow the instructions on screen.
DROPBOX FOR MAC OS SIERRA INSTALL
You’ll be prompted to grant these permissions when you install the Dropbox desktop app on macOS Sierra. In a new blog post, Dropbox still recommends that Mac users running macOS Sierra update their Accessibility permissions, if needed, to ensure smooth syncing and access to certain features of the cloud storage service.Īdvanced Dropbox collaboration features, such as the badge, require Accessibility permissions. The essence of good computer security and indeed the very reason why OSX has these kinds of safeguards in place to begin with is that apps should not have permissions greater than those that they need to do their job.Īt the time, Dropbox said it was working with Apple to reduce its dependence on elevated access in macOS Sierra, and would respect when people disable the app's Accessibility permissions, but now a much-needed safeguard exists regardless. Of course, that’s entirely theoretical, but all security risks are until someone exploits them. And that means, if Dropbox itself has a bug in it, it’s possible an attacker could take control of your computer by hijacking flaws in Dropbox’s code. It remains the fact that the Dropbox process has that ability.
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that Dropbox never does any evil on your computer. More details can be found in our previous coverage and in a Dropbox support document. Users can give access to an app, or click "not now" to deny the request.Ĭoncerns were raised after it was demonstrated that Dropbox appears in System Preferences > Security & Privacy under Accessibility, despite the fact that users were never prompted to grant access to the features. Following Dropbox-related security concerns that surfaced earlier this month, developer Phil Stokes has confirmed that macOS Sierra now explicitly requires apps to ask for user permission to access Accessibility (via Daring Fireball).
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