“Security of Web-Based Apps Questioned” – Probably not the last word on this topic…

The “security” issue of web based apps we talked about previously, twice, apparently has come full circle. If you didn’t read before, the general point was that users were saving documents as public which contained some very private information in them on web based spreadsheet and document services. And not just thier own private information, information about other people they might collect during the course of thier job or etc. So simplerich and I had a brief exchange about how this problem might impact the companies that provide these web based apps. My argument being that people won’t blame the posters but will instead blame the software companies even though users should know better.  So even though the security of the providers system was not directly being questioned, the end result it that it would be.

A few days later Zoho  disabled their demo account because “Many users unintentionally leave sensitive data in Zoho Writer’s demo account without realizing that it can be viewed by others. “