Archive for Juli, 2007

Update on Zombie Google Documents: Experience still yourself why private or confidential information should not be put on hosted services on the Internet

Montag, Juli 30th, 2007

From a theoretical standpoint it is clear that private or confidential information should not be put on a hosted service on the Internet (if it is not encrypted) because you can never be sure about who can access it and you can never be sure that it ever will be deleted if you would request [...]

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Privacy issue: Google Docs seems to not delete but only hide documents when the trash is emptied

Sonntag, Juli 15th, 2007

We are going to demonstrate in this article that documents on Google Docs (in July 2007) are not deleted, even after the user asked to empty the trash.
We are also going to show that there is an privacy issue with documents on Google Docs: parts of private documents on Google Docs can be accessed without [...]

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