Lukas' Random Thoughts

Tag: ownCloud

  • ownCloud security development over the years

    A deep look at the numbers It has been over three years now since ownCloud decided in 2012 to issue security advisories for each vulnerability at owncloud.org/security/ following industry best practice. We take this very seriously and create advisories even for very minor issues. What I have noticed is that people aren’t certain how to take this…

  • Combining ownCloud and Google calendar for public room availability

    In my coworking space we are using ownCloud calendar to keep track of the availability of our conference room which we are also renting. However, we want also to be able to show publicly the room availability without disclosing personal information to the public. Even more limiting, since we use Jimdo to host our website we can’t execute any server-side code.…

  • Security work going on in ownCloud

    Besides a lot of the performance work that was lately done as well as the stability and architectural improvements we work on, we are also striving to make ownCloud even more secure by improving our API as well as introducing new hardening features. In this blog post I am going to feature some of these changes. Those include: Please…

  • Content-Security-Policy and ownCloud

    New developers to ownCloud sometimes wonder why JavaScript code embedded in HTML templates is not executed in most browsers. The answer behind this lies in the Content-Security-Policy (CSP), a very powerful and interesting web security feature. While ownCloud uses CSP since version 5.0.0, which was released in March 2013 and was thus one of the…

  • A tale about trusted_domains

    ownCloud is all about protecting your data and as part of our development cycle we’re proactively auditing and assessing the security of ownCloud. In fact, most security bugs that we fix are discovered by our very own security team and not by third-party researchers (although, keep those fixes coming third-party researchers!). Many of the bugs with…

  • Contributing back to open-source

    In the open-source community the so-called “Linus’s Law” by Eric Raymond is often cited as one of the reasons why open-source projects would be so much better and more bug-free than closed source alternatives. But is that actually the truth? Let’s take a look at said “law”: Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base,…