Cloud service misconfiguration compromises private data ( i.e. do not trust the cloud )

[mat200]

"Google has disclosed a nightmare of a security and privacy bug affecting Google Photos users: for a time, it was possible for private videos to be downloaded by unrelated users "

"Some videos in Google Photos were incorrectly exported to unrelated user's archives. One or more videos in your Google Photos account was affected by this issue. If you downloaded your data, it may be incomplete, and it may contain videos that are not yours." Google writes that the bug happened "between November 21, 2019 and November 25, 2019."

ref:

Nightmare Google Photos bug sent private videos to the wrong people

Google's data export service exported the wrong data.

arstechnica.com

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So, can you really trust Nest ( google ), Ring / Blink ( Amazon ), Arlo ( Netgear ), .. and others to keep your data / videos secure?

 

[mikeynags]

There's no such thing as the cloud. It's just someone else's computer.