Starting sometime mid-year in 2011, I began having more ‘stuff’ to do than even my eidetic memory could help with. It’s not that I forgot things, per se, but the ability to mentally recall and prioritize work, family, personal and other tasks finally required some external assistance and I resolved to find a GTD system… Continue reading
Posts Tagged → dropbox
Dropbox 1.2.0 Experimental Build “Fixes” Security Issue
If you are concerned about the Dropbox design flaw exposed by the dbClone attack, then have we got a link for you! The intrepid DB devs have tossed up a forum release which purports to fix all the thorny security issues. You can no longer just copy a config file to a separate machine to… Continue reading
A Fully Operational OS X dbClone
Spent some time today updating the missing bits of the OS X version of the Dropbox cloner I uploaded last night. You can just grab the executable or grab the whole project from the github repository. The app can now backup/restore of local config, clone dropbox configs to a URL/file and also impersonate a captured… Continue reading
dbClone “hack” for OS X
UPDATE: Check out the newer post on additional features. There has been much ado of late about Dropbox security with one of the most egregious issues being how easy it is to surreptitiously “clone” someone else’s Dropbox by obtaining just one piece of data – the host id – from the Dropbox SQLite config.db. Moloch… Continue reading
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-08
Security Originally meant to improve the security of jailbroken iOS devices, antid0te is now also available for OS X Snow Leopard thanks to the efforts of Stefan Esser. Since Apple engineers did not see fit to load the dynamic linker – dyld – at a random base address, they left a fairly significant hole that… Continue reading
Backup Workflow
I was trying to convey my backup workflow/setup to @joeday in 140 and it just wasn’t working very well. Twitter – as one might expect – is not exactly the place for detailed technical discussions, but it does provide fertile ground to spark ideas and dialogue. I told @geekshui that I’d blog my setup and that turned… Continue reading