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Google docs exposed by software glitch

by on11 March 2009


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Fixed over the weekend


Google has
admitted that a bug exposed some privately stored documents in its Docs online application. The issue was resolved over the weekend and it is believed to have affected just .05 percent of documents stored at Google Docs.

Google representatives claim the bug occurred in documents which were used by more than one user, with settings adjusted to allow access to other collaborators. Unfortunately, collaborators also got the permission to access documents other than the ones they were working on.

The slip up comes as cloud computing and online applications are being touted as the next big thing in computing, but concerns about data security on such online services persist, for obvious reasons.

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