The famous Dropbox Mac finder hack. It may have been mythologized a little, as Rajiv Eranki was probably the genius hacker who figured it out.
> Here’s that rare Steve Jobs story, one that’s never been told, about the company that got away. Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that.
> Rajiv Eranki (early employee, no longer at Dropbox) did much of the reverse-engineering required to get the our file overlay icons onto files in the Finder, and also to get us into context menus.
> Here’s that rare Steve Jobs story, one that’s never been told, about the company that got away. Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that.
> Rajiv Eranki (early employee, no longer at Dropbox) did much of the reverse-engineering required to get the our file overlay icons onto files in the Finder, and also to get us into context menus.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropb...
https://www.quora.com/Many-articles-about-Drew-Houston-say-t...