Even Google Calendar isn't safe from hackers any more | TechRadar

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• Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly I’m wondering what Google’s long term plan for securing their productivity suite is. The amount of spam I get through Google drive share requests is shocking.

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  • nakal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I honestly hear the first time about this. Who sends you share requests?

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    • Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Basically anyone who knows your Gmail address can spam you with these requests. It's awful because I so rarely get Drive share requests, so I keep notifications on because if somebody actually needs to send me a legitimate file, I'd want to be alerted to it. And there doesn't appear to be much in the way of spam detection on this system.

      Though that might have changed recently. I used to get these very frequently, but I don't think I've seen one for probably a year now. Maybe they finally started detecting spammy share requests? Or maybe I've just been lucky for a minute.

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    • Bipta@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not the same person, but all sorts of random "people" - often with Cyrillic characters in the name.

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  • Decentralizr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Check skiff.com one click move from Gmail and co. Encryption matters!

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    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And then never leave them again because all your mail is captive with no way to migrate it.

      Encrypting email at rest is a fool’s errand. It doesn’t protect anything, it’s a waste of resources, makes you jump through hoops and use non-standard apps, keeps you captive to their service, but naive people feel good because “encryption”. Also Skiff are blatantly lying when they say it’s “end to end”.

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    • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I signed up for skiff when looking at providers to move away from Gmail but the one thing that stopped me was they didn’t have a way to export mail. I know it’s on their list but until then I can’t use it.

      Their free tier is very generous too. 15GB of storage is the same I get from Proton as a paying user.

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