Fentlemen, today I have a meeting

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Security Tales: Social Networks and Documents
Vladimir Bezmaly | 06.03.2017
- Good morning, Johann!

- Good day, Michelle!

- Coffee?

- With almond cookies.

- That's clear. Where would we be without it? With sugar and cream, as usual?

- Of course, you know everything yourself.

- Chief, the Emperor's office called. You need to be there in two hours.

- We have time. Invite Karl and Rita to my place for now, and come by yourself.

- So, with the Emperor. Is there something urgent that I would like to know about?

— Yes! The owners of the social network B decided to give their users the ability to read and even edit documents without leaving their social network account. I hope you understand what amazing prospects this opens up for us?

- Of course. We seem to control 52% of the shares of this network?

— Well, not us, but the emperor through a dummy fund. It was we who organized the creation of this option. Thus, we will now be able to control not only the correspondence of users usa whatsapp data the network, their data, but also see everything that they type in their documents. We will need to think through a search by keywords. And inform users that they will exchange documents in encrypted form. And we will generate the encryption keys ourselves.

- Great, on the one hand we care about users, their convenience and safety, and on the other we control them. You are a genius, Karl!

- No, boss, it wasn't me. It was Rita's idea, and I just brought it to the developers.

- All the same, you are both smart!

- Boss, it's time for you to go to the meeting!

- Yes, that will be something to please the emperor with! Thank you!

Alas, this is not science fiction at all. The social network VKontakte is making it possible to preview Microsoft Office documents: Word text files, PowerPoint presentations, Microsoft Excel. And in the future, the social network will also make it possible to edit these documents.