How safe are your documents on Google Docs?

I love the idea of beign able to access your documents anywhere, but I'm a little iffy about it. How safe are they really? Could someone easily access them, or hack into them? What are your opinions about it? (Or Office Live Workspace?). Any and all opinions are appreciated! Thanks!|||There are two tips which can greatly improve your safety:


1) When using an unencrypted wireless connection or some other network you don't really trust, use https://docs.google.com instead of http://docs.google.com. The extra 's' means 'secure'; all traffic is encrypted. The only down-side is it's a little bit slower.


2) When you use someone else's computer (especially at an Internet cafe or at a hotel), don't forget to logout of your Google account. And when logging in, don't check "remember my password". Pretty obvious.





Here at Google we use Docs to store all our confidential documents, spreadsheets and presentations. We use the same servers and we have no worries about people being able to see our data.





Andrew|||Just thought I should let you know that Google Docs did just have a major file leak (http://www.arthack.org/google-鈥?/a> You should look into Office Live Workspace as well at http://workspace.officelive.co鈥?/a>





Cheers,


Jeff D


MSFT Office Live Team

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|||It's very hard to hack Google server in order to obtain informations about Google's users.





But the problem is that Google will use people informations for some purposes, or the American government don't force Google to provide secret informations about their users.