Google Wave Security

The long wait is over! Google Wave is being set free today.
“We are going to open up Wave to everyone today” – Said team Google Wave team leader Lars Rasmussen
This is great news. People all over the internet thought Wave was dead, this is definitely not the case. Google Wave is a great collaboration service. [...]

Think twice before you join wierd programs that promise you a wave invite or even promise to make you money selling your invites.
First of all Google doesn’t condone the sale of it’s Wave invites. Secondly, is it worth risking the Backdoor.Tiderv Malware Trojan (some would say yes. Lol). Scammers convince Waver’s that they can earn [...]

I know that many people have been waiting for a way to better manage waves within Google Wave.
This will solve a core Google Wave issue. Google Wave groups and access controls are being discussed in the developer “labs” around the globe.
This will give entrepreneurs and enterprises a huge reason to jump onto wave right now [...]

(Gary asked for a practical real life example of Google Wave in business)
Today’s Scenario:
Lets say you have a procedure for selling car insurance via the phone. Usually prospects would call, the sales person would take them through a script that requires a lot of questions in order to determine exactly what [...]

A great post by theharmonyguy
After I posted concerns over security in Google Wave, several responses came (including one from Google) emphasizing that Wave was “still in an early preview stage” and many bugs would be fixed before a wider release. I think that clarifying why I would bother discussing bugs in a preview product may [...]

Here’s a very interesting article by Jason kolb http://jasonkolb.com
Reading through the Google Wave specs this weekend, I realized that Google has really accomplished something wonderful with the security model baked into the Wave protocol. (Not the CLIENT, specifically, but the extensions Google made to the XMPP PROTOCOL.)
Usually security is done one way, in just [...]

This is an interesting article by Stephen Withers
Monday, 19 October 2009
Interest in Google Wave is being exploited by people behind malicious web sites, according to a security software company. Looking for an invitation could result in a malware infection.
Those using Google searches to try to gain an invitation risk landing on a page that attempts [...]

This is quite an interesting article by Sarah Perez
Google Wave More Secure than Traditional Email
Written by Sarah Perez / October 15, 2009 7:17 AM / 5 Comments
Google Wave, the company’s new real-time collaboration platform currently in private beta, is more secure than traditional email, claims the company. According to Greg D’alesandre, Google Wave product manager, [...]

Google Wave Security will become a very talked about issue in the near future.
Not much is known about Google Wave except that there are hopes it will do away with all other forms of collaboration. The way I see Google Wave developing is that it will become a very useful tool to connect different business [...]

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