I think it's a reference to the movie Hackers.
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It would actually be pretty cool to have a site like this except you could add the regex to a list, and then people could upvote the regexe depending on the quality of it.
If this is indeed something nefarious, I would much rather assume it would transmit file hashes rather than the files itself. Although I can't possibly imagine this is actually true, the implications would be devastating for dropbox and it should be easy to verify by an independent third party.
Couldn't malware attempt to locate potential easter eggs in order to determine if they are in a honeypot?