For some of you who don’t know about GDrive, There is evidence of Google creating GDrive; a virtual location to store your files. GDrive will provide infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc).
Details about the GDrive product leaked onto the Web after Google accidentally posted notes online from a slide presentation given by executives during the company’s analyst presentation day. There was a slide or two on the presentation that showed evidence of Google creating GDrive. However, the slides discussing Google Drive were quickly taken down by Google and replaced with a sterilized version but entrepreneur and blogger Greg Linden noted the Google Drive information and blogged about it.
Some possible features of GDrive:-
- Publish. All of the files you store on Platypus are automatically accessible from the (corporate) web.
- Share. Other Googlers can mount your Platypus folders and open your files in read-only mode.
- Local IO speeds. Open and save as quickly as you could if you were accessing them from your C: drive.”
It seems that Microsoft is also working on a new virtual-storage service, code-named Live Drive. Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. It even has a name for that future service: Live Drive. With Live Drive, all your information - movies, music, tax information, a high-definition videoconference you had with your grandmother, whatever - could be accessible from anywhere, on any device. Read more here
These online drives sounds like a great idea; however, most users don’t realize how dangerous it can be to post data online in unencrypted form, primarily because most of us pick access passwords that are too short or too common, in other words, too easy for crackers to guess.
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