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Dropbox Wants More Access to Your Computer, and People Are Freaking Out

by okneil on 5/26/16, 9:49 AM with 11 comments

• by aaronharnly on 5/26/16, 12:10 PM

  On a single-user machine all the interesting stuff (personal documents, configuration, browser history etc) is in userland anyway. And people are already entrusting Dropbox with their personal files.

  I'd say this article represents Twitter-fishing -- search the comment-ome on any recent event and you'll find somebody panicking, or being crude, or whatever else you want to write an article about.

• by beardicus on 5/26/16, 12:29 PM

  Wow. Pretty garbagey article. Yes you can find some people on twitter that wouldn't want to load a kernel extension from Dropbox. Back in reality: nobody will even know, nobody will care, everybody will be happy if "it just works".

• by jhayward on 5/26/16, 7:25 PM

  I would have no problem with a kext from Dropbox as long as they publish the source and use reproducible builds.

  But given their ties to the US National Security establishment I would definitely pause before giving them blind kernel access.

• by dsfyu404ed on 5/26/16, 4:03 PM

  Tomorrow's headline: "Dropbox lays off enterprise sales team"

• by maze-le on 5/26/16, 12:18 PM

  I cannot see any reason whatsoever, that this has to run in the kernel.