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From the article: > So after a lot of brainstorming and ideas from HNers I finally figured out the culprit(s). > We have a live demo on our home where people
by vntok 6y ago
From the article:
> So after a lot of brainstorming and ideas from HNers I finally figured out the culprit(s).
> We have a live demo on our home where people can upload a test file. [...]
> We also give all users a 20MB test storage. [...]
> I believe that somebody signed up for our service (it’s free to sign up) and then uploaded a malicious file on our test storage and abused this feature.
If that is correct, Google was completely in the right to flag the domain as malicious and warn visitors.
- matsemann 6y agoWhy? Should GDrive be banned if a single user uploads a malicious file and links to it from a Gdoc?
- vntok 6y agoIf you create a folder in GDrive, share it with "anyone with a link" and then publish that link on Twitter, you will instantly collect porn, piracy & generally malicious files from all over the world. And your account will promptly get blocked, as it should.
- ttt0 6y agoLike they were in the right in removing decades of comp.lang.c archives, because it contained some spam? edit: just noticed, their comp.lang.c archives are back up now