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Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

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Re: Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

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Post by username223 »

ritikk4 wrote: post #15
nmc wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity (and regardless of the meaning of your comment), are you completely unrelated to the author of the comment you are linking to? Except the "3" at the end, their pseudonym is identical to yours. Here on HN people do not like fake accounts.

It's mine, I just signed up to join the discussion, but evidently new users get rate-limited to only a few comments, so I've incremented the username by 1 to indicate it's still me.

Since you've been busily doing PR for Google lately, I assume you're paid for it. Care to be honest about it?

Re: Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

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Post by gnud »

ritikk3 wrote: post #4

A couple of things: That is expected behaviour, email address in reminders applies coordination. It's basically parsing your command correctly 'email this address'. Second, the zdnet post you link to towards the end is full of inaccuracies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107554

Out of curiosity, would a tweet/SMS also be considered "expected" by you, if I entered a twitter handle or phone number in the title?

Re: Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

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Post by edent »

leephillips wrote: post #29

This article has pretty much the same content as my article from March, 2010: http://lee-phillips.org/gcaldisaster/ Even the titles are similar: this one's called "Another Google Privacy Flaw"; mine was called "Another Google Privacy Disaster Brewing". So people have been complaining about this since at least 2010, and Google by now has pretty firmly established that they don't care.

Hi Lee,

Although I did search for information about this issue, I didn't come across your blog.

I'll update mine with a link to yours.

T

Re: Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

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Post by OGC »

SunboX wrote: post #2

Btw. ownCloud 6.0.1 was released yesterday: http://owncloud.org/releases/Changelog

It's written in PHP and had numerous showstopping bugs unfortunately (atleast when i tried it out, which was 2 months ago). Syncing didn't even work.

I'm running Seafile at the moment, http://seafile.com/en/home/ which seems to work OK.

Re: Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

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Post by krapp »

est wrote: post #27
camus2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well, you had a problem with a badly written wordpress plugin ,not PHP. or are you saying PHP is insecure and no insecure code can be written in other plateforms ? for a project to be popular amongs developers and hobbyists , it has to be written in PHP, because PHP is easy to deploy even if you dont know PHP. By the way, most CMSes on other plateforms assume you know the language , PHP CMSes dont, so maybe there is…

> you had a problem with a badly written wordpress plugin The plugin is top 10 popular one > because PHP is easy to deploy even if you dont know PHP. Wordpress has clean URL, but under the hood many .php files are directly accessible via URL, so hacker found a exploit, crafted a parameter aginst one particular .php, and got in. The solution? Limit URL entry to only one .php file (like index.php), more rewrite configs…

What plugin was it, and did you report the issue, and was this recent?

Re: Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

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Post by brudgers »

Privacy, where it exists, creates impedance in Google's cash flow because it requires designing for some n sigma tail where n does not entail statistical significance and the case analysis must be very fine grained.

Google doesn't have a category labeled "private" information". It never has and creating one is not planned. Privacy is not amenable to computer science. It is a social concept not a technical one. The closest technical concern is security. It scales and so that is where Google devotes resources.

As far as Google is concerned: All your bit are belong to us.

Re: Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

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Post by blueskin_ »

username223 wrote: post #31
ritikk4 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's mine, I just signed up to join the discussion, but evidently new users get rate-limited to only a few comments, so I've incremented the username by 1 to indicate it's still me.

Since you've been busily doing PR for Google lately, I assume you're paid for it. Care to be honest about it?

I'd bet ritikk201 will still be doing google PR 2 weeks later.

Re: Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information

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Post by dredmorbius »

slazaro wrote: post #3

The worst thing about things like this happening is the feeling of helplessness when you can't reach anyone in the company or when they just say "it's not a problem".

Or the company shill shows up and burns through four HN accounts trying to spread FUD.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ritikk

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ritikk2

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ritikk3

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ritikk4

(Should I add the 5th link or wait for him to create that ID as well?)

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