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Whoops! Google Leaks Users' Documents from the Cloud

Posted 03/09/09 at 03:15:44 PM  by Paul Lilly

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In what's sure to have Google blushing and cloud-based computing opponents hollering "told you so!," the search company issued a notice to users of its Document and Spreadsheet products alerting them that some of their documents may have been inadvertently shared with others.

"This inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document," Google Docs Team wrote in a notice. "The issue only occurred if you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, selected multiple documents and presentations from the documents list and changed the sharing permissions. This issue affected documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets."

Google blamed the mishap on a bug, which the company claims to have now fixed. In the meantime, Google said it used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from the documents it identified as being affected, and those will need to be re-shared by the owner.

According to Google, this was an isolated incident that affected less than .05 percent of all documents.

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TAGS: Software, Security, Google, cloud computing
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avatarIf the one's leaked were

Submitted by smashingpumpin on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 8:23pm

If the one's leaked were "tax docs", "bills" etc... That'll be 10 Fail points each!

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...and what does this have to do with porn?

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avatarJust took time to add my.......

Submitted by ghot on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 8:05pm

I told you so.....

The human race in general can not be trusted with peoples private things, when there's money to be made.  I seriously think that ALL of us learned this ages ago in grade school....when taught...."why communism doesn't work"

We can't even trust our ISP's with our private info, why should we expect Google to be any different.

 

Take efficiency, and edit out all the intelligence and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)

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avatarI told you so.... See I told

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 6:13pm

I told you so....

See I told you the Cloud is not secure. I told you that you are stupid if you rely on a third party to store you sensitive data. Just look at my previous posts on this subject as proof that I predicted this. I do admit that I didn't expect something this quick.

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avatar@ LOL... Thankfully no one

Submitted by I Jedi on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 5:10pm

@ LOL... Thankfully no one keeps sensitive documents in the "Cloud"... Ha. Ha. Ha. That would just be silly. "Rolles eyes" = )

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avatarTold you so!  XD

Submitted by grayscare0 on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 12:47pm

Told you so!  XD

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avatarThis is why the government

Submitted by MrNaPaLm32 on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 12:16pm

This is why the government shouldn't be using google docs.

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avatarI'm waitingthe spin.  No

Submitted by N25PHILLY on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 11:36am

I'm waitingthe spin.  No matter how crappy everything they do is, Google is not allowed to fail

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