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Microsoft Yanks Docs.com Search After Complaints of Exposed Sensitive Files (zdnet.com)
Microsoft has quietly removed a feature on its document sharing site Docs.com that allowed anyone to search through millions of files for sensitive and personal information. From a report on ZDNet: Users had complained over the weekend on Twitter that anyone could use the site's search box to trawl through publicly-accessible documents and files stored on the site, which were clearly meant to remain private. Among the files reviewed by ZDNet, and seen by others who tweeted about them, included password lists, job acceptance letters, investment portfolios, divorce settlement agreements, and credit card statements -- some of which contained Social Security and driving license numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, and email and postal addresses. The company removed the site's search feature late on Saturday, but others observed that the files were still cached in Google's search results, as well as Microsoft's own search engine, Bing.
The homepage of Docs.com states ...
-Tap below to upload your documents.
-Later, you can choose who may view your documents.
How much later is anyone's guess.
Q: What is Bing?
A: The sound a MS service makes when it crashes.
Any Windows user knows it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Microsoft = Job Security. I wouldn't have 20+ year old technical career without Microsoft. I don't expect that to change in the next 20+ years.
Research shows that there is a single "frequently stolen laptop" which has been stolen 137 times. This laptop is just a shite laptop which keeps getting stolen from Starbucks but it is so useless that people return it to Starbucks where it is stolen again by new unsuspecting thieves.
Each thief who tries to use it enters their passwords into Yahoo mail and Facebook but it is so slow that they quickly realize that they are wasting their time and they can't even sell it to their dumb brother. Of course, this laptop contains a festering pile of malware so their passwords are immediately sent to The Great Orange One who reads their email and Tweets conspiracy theories about all of these people sending him sensitive super top secret data... so SAD.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?