Google software bug shared private online documents
| Google has confirmed that a software bug exposed documents thought to be privately stored in the Internet giant’s online Docs application service.
The problem was fixed by the weekend and is believed to have affected only .05 percent of the digital documents at a Google Docs service that provides text-handling programs as services on the Internet. |
But a bunch of you wouldn’t listen to my earlier warnings (here and here), would you?!
Oh well. 🙄
Ah, yes. Transparency and openness — they’re the new wave. Well, you can surf it all you want. 😆
Oh, sorry me — I forgot — you know it won’t happen to you. Great. I will grant you that the .05% cited above gives you good odds. Still, what about the security lapses they haven’t even discovered yet? 😀
And how much comfort do the owners of the .05% derive from those “long” odds? 😯
Anyway, I’ll continue to store my stuff on CDs and DVDs and secondary PCs and external (almost always disconnected) hard drives.