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"The Dropbox application uses a filesystem monitor to detect when changes are made by monitoring filesystem write events. This is, by necessity, a system-wide process. So DLP alerting that Dropbox is “acccessing” a new file shouldn’t be surprising."

I think this SHOULD be surprising to any competent software engineers. That isn't how the file system watcher works.

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