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Are Skydrive documents somewhat public or are people just sharing them by mistake? I don't use it nor am I that familiar with it.
by br2 5y ago
Are Skydrive documents somewhat public or are people just sharing them by mistake? I don't use it nor am I that familiar with it.
- eganist 5y ago> Are Skydrive documents somewhat public or are people just sharing them by mistake? I don't use it nor am I that familiar with it. Almost all of this would be by mistake, no different than misconfiguring an S3 bucket.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoYou can create a long complicated link to share with other people, even people without Skydrive/OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive accounts. But sometimes people publish these links somewhere where a search engine's crawler sees it and follow it. I remember spotting someone's URL to a Google Doc on their screen which their camera caught in their YouTube video. I manually typed it into my browser's URL bar and voila, I could read that document. Nothing juicy though.
- ethbr0 5y agoI've got a great story about this, ad absurd, from a HIPAA-covered entity. IT turned on One Drive backups for their desktop image, without communicating to users. A week later, there's a flurry of a few tens of thousand angrygrams about users storing sensitive documents in the cloud. ... by which they meant (in user terms) "having files on your Desktop."
- amelius 5y agoPerhaps URLs should have an escape character which says that sensitive information starts/ends, so browsers can take appropriate action.
- jaywalk 5y agoDear god, no. No more messing with URLs.