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Originally Posted by Blossom
You simply don't understand how scripts work.
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No need to comment on my understanding or lack thereof.
I thought I posited that already:
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Originally Posted by jj2me
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- It may not be possible for an app to login for us and then do the chores of monitoring the Dropbox exchange without acting as our proxy, so this may not be out of the ordinary. Any web developer, please correct me.
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Although I have a background of 30 years in datacomm networking and standards, including 10 as a developer and mixing in one in network security, I hedged in the above since I haven't done this type of work in web or smartphone development, so don't know for sure whether there might now possibly be some standard way to farm out authentication and authorization to trusted proxies.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
I agree with Harry.
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I don't believe Harry was so definitively certain.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
The developer is in Asia using their servers to help you access Dropbox nothing more.
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There is no way you can know this. About ES Explorer or any other app. Unless you see the code.
In my first post, I presented some more information to the puzzle. I made no conclusions. In my second post, I laid out the incongruity of:
a) a highly professional and costly app with no revenue or PR or ecosystem-lock-in benefit (this point I would always question),
b) lots of personal info going to Chinese servers, and
c) the potential value of that info to the Chinese military (see Huawei).
I still do not have a conclusion.
These are the possibilities as I see them:
A. if they're indeed being bad, it will take some experts catching them and reporting it.
B. if they're not being bad, it might be
i) they're collecting meta-data, which isn't any more harmful or intrusive than what others do, or
ii) they're just the sweetest, kindest philanthropists to be spending thousands of dollars out-of-pocket each year (one example: for purchasing needed test cell phones), not counting their labor.