Look at who is on the board of Dropbox and ask yourself what the value of a file syncing service having accessibility (and previously kernel extension) privileges on your machine are.
replyNot to mention that Dropbox has never been E2E protected and had that Lenovo credential free access bug on web not too long ago.
Dropbox should be considered untrustworthy at this point, especially since iCloud Drive offers E2E encryption and so do other competitors.
Is this a fake dialog, or just the standard system sudo dialog, which used to allow app developers to show an arbitrary reason string?
replyIf it was the standard macOS dialog, an app wouldn't have been able to snoop the password
replyWhy do you think it snooped the password? Top comment says:
reply> - We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple).
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replySomething about reading this blog post knowing every letter and screenshot done manually with no LLM gave me the chills
replyYou can't be sure. Maybe an AI from the future went back in time Skymet-style and wrote everything there
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