{"id":8002,"date":"2021-04-01T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T17:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2021-04-03T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:10:20","slug":"dont-store-confidential-files-in-online-file-sharing-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/dont-store-confidential-files-in-online-file-sharing-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Store Confidential Files in Online File Sharing Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given their integration into the Mac\u2019s Finder, it can be easy to forget that online file sharing services like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive can be accessed using a Web browser by anyone with your username and password. Obviously, you should always have strong, unique passwords, but to be safe, it\u2019s best not to use services designed for public file sharing to store unencrypted files containing sensitive information like credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, passport scans, privileged legal documents, financial data, and so on. Keep such data secure on your Mac\u2014outside of any synced folders\u2014where accessing it requires physical access to the machine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8450\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dont-store-confidential-files-in-online-file-sharing-services.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dont-store-confidential-files-in-online-file-sharing-services-1.png 980w, https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dont-store-confidential-files-in-online-file-sharing-services-2.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image based on an original by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@knznpmcn?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenaz Nepomuceno<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/aerial-photo-of-city-with-lights-during-night-time-942339\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pexels<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given their integration into the Mac\u2019s Finder, it can be easy to forget that online file sharing services like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive can be accessed using a Web browser by anyone with your username and password. Obviously, you should always have strong, unique passwords, but to be safe, it\u2019s best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,73,25,108,112,185,104],"tags":[993,74],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-icloud","category-mac","category-mac-support","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-security","tag-dropbox","tag-icloud-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8021,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}