As any Dropbox user knows, it’s pretty easy to share a cloud-stored file with someone; just click the share icon to get a link you can distribute as needed. Ah, but what about the other way around?

Mistakes happen–Dropbox learned this the hard way when it accidentally left some user accounts open to the public for about four hours on Tuesday. This is obviously an inexcusable error, especially ...

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