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Dropbox responds to security flap

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    Information Week[^]:

    After questions from a security researcher, Dropbox says that it opens links in uploaded documents in conjunction with the preview feature. Dropbox also trying to address DDoS concerns.

    "Be seeing you"

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      Information Week[^]:

      After questions from a security researcher, Dropbox says that it opens links in uploaded documents in conjunction with the preview feature. Dropbox also trying to address DDoS concerns.

      "Be seeing you"

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      ""While this could theoretically be used for DDoS, we haven't seen any such behavior. However, just to be extra cautious we've temporarily disabled external resource loading while we explore alternatives."" Translation: "Sh*t! Didn't think of that! Run away! Run awaaaaaaaayyyyy!" :laugh:

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