Time to shine Microsoft!!!!

[psoham777]

Why to give a chance to suspend your account?

 

[unstoppablekem]

No, they only suspend your account if you share them, or if it's illegal.

I heard if you have any explicit content on your OneDrive, it would be.

 

[unstoppablekem]

Why to give a chance to suspend your account?

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[psoham777]

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What do you mean? Please elaborate

 

[Jas00555]

I heard if you have any explicit content on your OneDrive, it would be.

Not exactly....

Here is the code of conduct for Microsoft's services:

3.6. What type of Content or actions aren't permitted? In order to protect our customers and the Services, we have established this Code of Conduct governing the use of the Services. Content or actions that violate this Agreement aren't permitted.


i. Don't use the Services to do anything illegal.


ii. Don't engage in any activity that exploits, harms, or threatens to harm children.


iii. Don't send spam or use your account to help others send spam. Spam is unsolicited bulk email, postings or instant messages.


iv. Don't publicly display inappropriate images (e.g. nudity, bestiality, pornography).


v. Don't engage in activity that is false or misleading (e.g. attempts to ask for money under false pretenses, impersonating someone else).


vi. Don't engage in activity that is harmful to the Services or others (e.g. viruses, stalking, hate speech, advocating violence against others).


vii. Don't infringe upon the rights of others (e.g. unauthorized sharing of copyrighted music, resale or other distribution of Bing maps, photographs and other Content).


viii. Don't engage in activity that violates the privacy of others.


In many cases Microsoft is alerted to violations of the Code of Conduct through customer complaints, but we also deploy automated technologies to detect child pornography or abusive behavior that might harm the system, our customers, or others. When investigating these matters, Microsoft or its agents will review Content in order to resolve the issue. This is in addition to the uses we describe in this Agreement and the Privacy Statements.

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As you can see, they explicitly say under iv that you can't "PUBLICALLY display inappropriate images", meaning that Kate Upton can take as many scandalous pictures as she wants (only as an example.... Unfortunately) and upload them to OneDrive, but she can't share them publically.

 

[Jazmac]

No breach at Apple iCloud. Weak passwords lost these fools their information. Microsoft would look like idiots to attempt to capitalize on some feeble OneDrive promotion. The blogs would waste MS for months as a result.

 

[anon(5445874)]

How is this good news for MS? If you believe Leo, Paul and Mary Jo, Apple uses Microsoft Azure to run iCloud which i'm sure is the exact same thing that OneDrive uses.

 

[techiez]

Just saying, doesn't Microsoft have issues with their cloud service too? I mean, they'll suspend your account if you have pics like these, so people could say Microsoft watches over out stuff and is more vulnerable too...

The policy was modified, they dont shut down your accounts anymore

 

[unstoppablekem]

The policy was modified, they dont shut down your accounts anymore

These famous people should now use OneDrive! It is also safer

 

[Sebastianx]

There nothing as absolute security on any technology.
There and there will be a flaw.
Keep me mind nothing is unhackable.

 

[EC Translating Services]

With the news that more than 100 icloud accounts belonging to actors and singers have been hacked using the brute force attack, shouldn't Microsoft make a campaign around the fact that OneDrive is a much safer/securer option for users. I'm not saying give these people free windows phones.... Just steer them towards OneDrive....

You can't keep nudity on OneDrive and most of those celebs had nudes on their iCloud. Also, Microsoft actually checks your mail/cloud to see if you have anything "morally unsuitable" (You know, these corporations are all very morally upright and you should be the same),

That said...there is no safe cloud in general, even less if it's in the US. Cloud is not safe. Full stop. It will never be. Something residing in someone else's device (in this case a server) whose safety is based on shaky promises and as shaky encryption in a country where spying and technocontrol has become accepted and standardized is an empty promise.

 

[Laura Knotek]

You can't keep nudity on OneDrive and most of those celebs had nudes on their iCloud. Also, Microsoft actually checks your mail/cloud to see if you have anything "morally unsuitable" (You know, these corporations are all very morally upright and you should be the same),

That said...there is no safe cloud in general, even less if it's in the US. Cloud is not safe. Full stop. It will never be. Something residing in someone else's device (in this case a server) whose safety is based on shaky promises and as shaky encryption in a country where spying and technocontrol has become accepted and standardized is an empty promise.

I don't have anything in cloud services that I wouldn't mind sharing publicly.

 

[Jose Medrano Jimenez]

Agree!

 

[EC Translating Services]

I don't have anything in cloud services that I wouldn't mind sharing publicly.

That denies a fully functional use of the cloud Laura. What you keep in the cloud is not what everybody else wants. iCloud case is clearly an example. These people put their personal stuff in the cloud and it got busted.

I could reap huge benefits from the cloud as i could keep my translation memories there and then use them remotely from any PC with my CAT software. I can't because i am responsible for that data. Should it be used, reused, distributed or else i'd be responsible for it. The intrinsic nature of the cloud + all what the NSA does have put off a lot of customers (more than the press and average people seem to understand).

Once you can't use the cloud for stuff you need or want because you have doubts then it's a platform for trash essentially. Do i really have to care buying or using cloud platforms to put my pics on it when paying once rather than once a year i can have my own external disk with wifi or remote connection and connect to it anytime from anywhere anyways?

I use 2 external disks. One is connected to PC. The other is wifi or IP connected and can connect also when out or even abroad if i want. I do have one backup on the cloud on an European platform and that's keeping an encrypted copy of my hard disk which uploaded periodically. But the rest is local. Also, OneDrive never worked good for me anyways. Files i upload from PC won't show on Lumia and the other way round. Files with a certain amount of characters won't upload (Mega doesn't have this issue for example). Files uploaded for a research study disappeared a few times forcing me to remake the whole research. I never mentioned in here but OneDrive for me isn't reliable at all. Also, the fact me or my wife if i had one as adults can't put what we want in our cloud is absurd. What people have come to accept as normal in the US as they are being stripped of their dignity little by little is beyond imagination.

 

[Pete]

Microsoft doesn't have teams of people trawling through your OneDrive accounts looking for inappropriate images - they'll only act on content that has been flagged as inappropriate by other users. They do, however, scan accounts for known images by running a signature scan.

These iPhone owning celebrities (and far more people, I'm sure) have fallen foul of the exact same functionality as we have (photos are automatically uploaded to a hosting site). Once you set that option, it's easy to forget that it's there. If someone guesses the password for your Microsoft account, then you're opened up in the same way.

Two step authentication goes a long way to preventing this from happening. They key thing (at least for me) is appropriate use - I know that photos/videos will be uploaded to OneDrive, so I don't take any photos I wouldn't want my mother seeing (it's the baseline I use for any content I create on the internet, regardless of whether it's protected/hidden or not.

Getting back to the thread topic, I don't believe that it's ethical or professional conduct to capitalise on another providers security weaknesses - when it comes to security, providers should help and learn from one another to raise the bar across all platforms. This is why Formula 1 is as safe as it is today.

 

[ams963]

Strong password and two step authentication make it easier to prevent these hacking incidents.

 

[Great deal]

Nothing is unhackable. The only reason why iCloud was targeted was because it has more users including celebrities. If OneDrive was used by majority of celebrities, it would've been hacked just as easily.

Advice to anyone using Onedrive - Take a look at Boxcryptor, I use it myself, it encrypts everything on Onedrive so hackers cant get your stuff. Its a German based company that takes privacy super serious. Theres a free version which allows you to use 2 devices, eg PC and Mobile, works great!

 

[05Paris]

Why not, apple folks have claimed for years their product is more secure. We kept saying all along it is because they are a small eco-system. Times are a changing...

 

[jmshub]

These cloud storage services desperately need to begin rolling out an end-to-end encryption service. It can be optional, but you should be able to establish the key with the implicit understanding that if you screw up and lose the key, you lose access to your data.

It's a shame that you sound like a raving paranoid talking like this, but we know that the US Government compels personal data from Google, Microsoft, Apple and more, not to mention that issues like this with password management makes users more vulnerable.

 

[Jas00555]

You can't keep nudity on OneDrive and most of those celebs had nudes on their iCloud. Also, Microsoft actually checks your mail/cloud to see if you have anything "morally unsuitable" (You know, these corporations are all very morally upright and you should be the same),

That said...there is no safe cloud in general, even less if it's in the US. Cloud is not safe. Full stop. It will never be. Something residing in someone else's device (in this case a server) whose safety is based on shaky promises and as shaky encryption in a country where spying and technocontrol has become accepted and standardized is an empty promise.

Quick question..... Did you intentionally skip what I wrote where I showed exactly what their ToS were or did you just read it and decided to write this anyways. Yes, you are allowed to keep nude photos on OneDrive, you're just not allowed to put them in your public folder and share them.