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The Fog of Cloud Computing

I spent a good part of the last hour following links to stories about security and privacy lapses in Google Docs. I started out with a TechCrunch article detailing additional security loopholes that a security expert had recently uncovered including:

  • Embedded images in protected documents that never go away and that get saved to an open server
  • The new diagram feature of Google Docs saves all previous versions of the diagram and makes them available to anyone who can read the doc, even if you’ve set the diagram to view only mode
  • Sometimes users still can access documents after their permissions have been revoked

These are pretty serious issues for customers who use Google Docs in a true collaborative… Continue reading: The Fog of Cloud Computing