GoogleDocs security sharing vulnerability

March 8, 2009

Anybody contemplating using GoogleDocs or any other cloud computing system for their business documents might want to re-think that decision or at the very least, include it in the risk matrix when making that decision. It took 10 days to fix and notify which I suppose is good in today’s world. It does however highlight the risks of putting data on a cloud computing platform that you effectively do not have administrative control of. A thoughful analysis of what an outsider thinks the process was at Google — probably pretty accurate in my opinion.