Whoops! Google Leaks Users' Documents from the Cloud
Whoops! Google Leaks Users' Documents from the Cloud
Posted 03/09/2009 at 12:15pm
| 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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smashingpumpin
March 09, 2009 at 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?
ghot
March 09, 2009 at 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 :)
Keith E. Whisman
March 09, 2009 at 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.
I Jedi
March 09, 2009 at 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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