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deepakjc

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deepakjc··on Google marked this vulnerability as "Won't Fix" but I disagree. Care to comment?
Sorry about that, I rarely post questions on HN. Forgot to add the "Ask HN: " I don't suppose I can edit it now.
deepakjc··on Google marked this vulnerability as "Won't Fix" but I disagree. Care to comment?
Ah, this is a helpful insight. I didn't realise that this is how the integration works. It seems that, at most, Google could force Slack to update their integration's behaviour (and take down the integration till that happens). But as you mentioned, they can't really fix it themselves.

I probably wouldn't have posted this if I had received this explanation from Google. :)

This was their response: "Hi! We've decided that the issue you reported is not severe enough for us to track it as a security bug: when someone with access to a doc sends a link over slack, they express their intent to share this document, hence the preview shared independently from the sharing setup on the doc does not represent a significant risk."

deepakjc··on Google marked this vulnerability as "Won't Fix" but I disagree. Care to comment?
Wow, 3 separate mentions on HN is pretty high (and those were the ones you were able to find). This must have been reported dozens of times to Google.

That said, if (a) this is only occurring with the 2 conditions you mentioned and (b) if Google Drive integrations are only allowed with vetted partners, then I suppose this is less exploitable. Someone would have to intentionally put the link into a 3rd party application that had some people who shouldn't have access.

Though it still be a problem I think, privacy is important even internally. Sometimes access needs to be revoked, or people are unaware of all the people who have access to a channel etc.

deepakjc··on Quake in your browser
I'm on Chrome (on a macbook) and the mouse isn't working... Click works to shoot, but I can't look around using the mouse. Any ideas?

(I'm playing with just the keyboard so far... but I can see the end coming soon.)

deepakjc··on Google Analytics Launches Cohort Analysis
Go to your Google Analytics dashboard and check it out.
deepakjc··on What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger
If this is true... then I need to rethink a lot of my life choices... what is actually good for me?

Would love to hear the opinion of doctors/scientists on this...

deepakjc··on What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger
A very interesting concept, will definitely need to read more on this!

But what about the kind of research that talks about the dangers of living in cities... like "living in a polluted city is like smoking X cigarettes a day"?

deepakjc··on Hacker News Leaderboard
Just saw this today, and the "leaders" are far out of my reach...
deepakjc··on How do dolphins sleep without drowning? [video]
Pretty surprising answer, they sleep half their brain at a time!
deepakjc··on 0^0
I read upto "High School Teacher"... skimmed through "Calculus Teacher"... and scrolled through "Mathematician"...
deepakjc··on Bitbucket partial outage!
Any idea how big this partial outage is?
deepakjc··on Skype now carries the majority of international phone traffic
Its hard to believe that internet phone calls are beginning to overtake regular phone networks (even if its just international calls.)

Times are changing...

deepakjc··on Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer
Even though the offer is only for ipad and iphone, you just need to login once from your (or a friend's) i-device to get the 50GB activated.
deepakjc··on Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer
Looking at the comments, you'd think the post title was "Box vs Dropbox"...
deepakjc··on Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer
A better (IMHO) comparison can be found here: http://www.softwareadvice.com/labs/box-vs-dropbox/
deepakjc··on Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer
Nice box vs dropbox article: http://www.softwareadvice.com/labs/box-vs-dropbox/