Google Glitch Shared Docs Without Permission

Terry Olaes

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TechCrunch reports that Google Docs inadvertently shared out some documents without the owners’ permission. The glitch was limited to less than .05% of all documents and affected people “with whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document.” Below is Google’s response to this revelation. Doh!

We fixed the bug, which affected less than 0.05% of documents, and removed any collaborators. We also contacted the users who were affected to notify them of the bug and to identify which of their documents may have been affected. We have extensive safeguards in place to protect all documents, and are confident this was an isolated incident.
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lol 'extensive safeguards'.
Clearly not extensive enough.
Its not like this is the first time they have shared documents without authorisation.
They should stop doing things that involve security, they cannot be trusted.

Do you trust Google with your personal info?
Quite the opposite.
 
This is why I'm not a fan of giving my documents to a third-party. ESPECIALLY one whose main purpose is indexing information ;)

That said, as Bluntman pointed out, it's why I dislike cloud computing as well. I'd much rather see things like Windows Home Server take over for personal storage/backup.
 
I've been saying this for years, email hosts, as an example, their is so much information to be mined out of messages sitting at Microsoft's Hotmail servers and any other outfit that gives you free "ahhim" email accounts. I don't understand or maybe people just don't understand that anybit of info you put on someones server ceases to be yours only, you will probably find this out once the new EULA's are written up.
 
Squizzel said:
Mistakes happen....Cloud Computing is amazingly beneficial.
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There's a lot of "buzz" around cloud computing, but I would hazard that only a very insignificant minority of people know the details of what cloud computing is about. I certainly don't. All I see is "centralized storage with web-based access", which (I think) clearly can't be the whole picture.
 
Cyrilix said:
There's a lot of "buzz" around cloud computing, but I would hazard that only a very insignificant minority of people know the details of what cloud computing is about. I certainly don't. All I see is "centralized storage with web-based access", which (I think) clearly can't be the whole picture.
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That is exactly what cloud computing is. Cloud == internet. For things like netbooks where storage is scarce, cloud computing can be a huge boost. It is also helpful if you have several systems that you regularly switch between, but don't know how to set up your own remote server to share the information.
 
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