I jumped on Twitter and engaged Jer in a DM session (see below) where I was laughing so hard I was crying…he eventually called me and I walked him through what happened.
This is why gigs of storage was appearing/disappearing from my local storage when he added/removed files, but I didn’t see the synch messages and thus didn’t see the filenames. I hadn’t bothered to unshare said folder for years, especially since my cloud storage quota kept increasing while my local storage didn’t.Īs I put 1 and 1 together, I realized that for at least a couple of years, Jeremiah (Grossman) had been using this dropbox share folder titled “Dropit” as a repository for file storage, thinking it was HIS!
I checked the folder these files were resting in - gigabytes of them - and realized it was a shared folder that I had setup 3 years ago to allow a friend of mine to share a video from one of our infamous Jiu Jitsu smackdown sessions from the RSA Security Conference. Puzzled because I wasn’t aware of any public shares and/or remote folders I was synching, I checked the Dropbox synch status and saw a number of files that were unfamiliar - and yet the names of the files certainly piqued my interest…they appeared to belong to a very good friend of mine given their titles. So this evening, quite literally as I was reading RSnake’s interesting blog post titled “ So your nude selfies were just hacked,” a Growl notification popped up informing me that several new Dropbox files were completing synchronization.
Ordinarily, these two events would not be related except I was also tracking down a local disk utilization issue that was vexing me as on a day-to-day basis as my local SSD storage would ephemerally increase/decrease by GIGABYTES and I couldn’t figure out why.
One of the applications I enabled was Dropbox synch messaging so I could monitor some sharing activity. From the “ It can happen to anyone” department…Ī couple of days ago, prior to the announcement that hundreds of celebrities’ nudie shots were liberated from their owners and posted to the Web, I customized some Growl notifications on my Mac to provide some additional realtime auditing of some apps I was interested in.
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