Google Docs & Spreadsheets - How Secure and Safe is it?

bob4432

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i have a couple documents that are somewhat sensitive that need to be collaborated on. how safe/secure would you say this google setup is?

or is there any free php/mysql setup i could put on my own https server that would allow the same type of collaboration? through a browser?

thanks,
bob
 

bleeb

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Anything on Google is relatively safe. Until they decide to start selling their huge database of information... which makes Google Checkout a bad idea.
 

waggy

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depends. how senstive is it? is it worht the risk no matter how small?
 

Qacer

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If it's sensitive in terms of national security, then avoid the trouble you can get yourself into. Use some other means of collaborating.
 

bob4432

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definately not national security sensitive but sensitive to me and the people working on it. nothing illegal or anything, just not sure if google has a price tag and if they just data mine everything including these docs...

i have tried to find something i can put on my own server but i can't find a script that does this...anybody have an idea of one?
 

Alphathree33

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Originally posted by: bob4432
definately not national security sensitive but sensitive to me and the people working on it. nothing illegal or anything, just not sure if google has a price tag and if they just data mine everything including these docs...

i have tried to find something i can put on my own server but i can't find a script that does this...anybody have an idea of one?

You mean does anyone have a copy of the Google source code for Google Docs and Spreadsheets so you can use it on your website?

"A script", ... you make it sound like a 3-line function. GD&S is likely thousands of lines of Javascript, if not more. Of course it's in plain text and available in your browser's cache, but it's heavily obfuscated. =)

EDIT: Oh, and that's just the client end. You'll never see the server-side code. =)
 

bob4432

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Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Originally posted by: bob4432
definately not national security sensitive but sensitive to me and the people working on it. nothing illegal or anything, just not sure if google has a price tag and if they just data mine everything including these docs...

i have tried to find something i can put on my own server but i can't find a script that does this...anybody have an idea of one?

You mean does anyone have a copy of the Google source code for Google Docs and Spreadsheets so you can use it on your website?

"A script", ... you make it sound like a 3-line function. GD&S is likely thousands of lines of Javascript, if not more. Of course it's in plain text and available in your browser's cache, but it's heavily obfuscated. =)

EDIT: Oh, and that's just the client end. You'll never see the server-side code. =)

when i say a script i am not trying to minimize it - like phpbb is a php script, as is smf that is what i am referring to. i am not asking for googles code, but something similiar that is all that. might use a mysql backend, nothing fancy. all of the php web collaboration scripts/programs i have found don't let you edit documents on the internet, they basically just give access to others so they can modify them and i could do that with a blank apache folder and ftp access, but was looking for something a bit more refined.

maybe i will just use a forum script and allow everybody who needs to have access to edit the different threads the ability. i figure if the entire forum is wrapped in a secured folder and require https to view then it should be pretty safe