Google Desktop Search Under Fire 444
AchilleCB writes "Cnn and many other sources are jumping on the Google-privacy-bash bandwagon, they are carrying stories warning of more privacy implications regarding Google's Desktop Search, "if it's installed on computers at libraries and Internet cafes, users could unwittingly allow people who follow them on the PCs, for example, to see sensitive information in e-mails they've exchanged. That could mean revealed passwords, conversations with doctors, or viewed Web pages detailing online purchases." ... Type in "hotmail.com" and you'll get copies, or stored caches, of messages that previous users have seen. Enter an e-mail address and you can read all the messages sent to and from that address. Type "password" and get password reminders that were sent back via e-mail."
library users? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't forget 911 (Score:3, Funny)
The Google engine should be required under The Patriot Act to forward everything that it finds on every public computer to Homeland Security at connectthedots.gov
Defensive measures such as logout and flushing the cache are acts of terrorism.
Re:Lurking privacy concern (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Google Desktop Search - VNC pairing (Score:0, Funny)
way to think out of the box dude.
jesus...
Re:Security Diversion (Score:5, Funny)
In todays society it's generally the inverse. People who do understand how things should be done are befuddled when confronted with the way they are done.
Re:Security Diversion (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, come on. The only reason you don't like federal databases is because you owe the IRS $2,674.26 in back taxes and penalties from your 1999 taxes. And you never paid that parking ticket you got on 2nd Street in Cincinnati. Ohio on December 22, 2002. And there's that toll booth in Chicago you drove through without paying three times back in July. If you don't take care of your tickets, we might have to sieze the $3299 plasma TV you put on your Visa card on the 17th of last month (normally we'd threaten to put a lien on your house, but our records show that you moved into an apartment back in June).
Re:Lurking privacy concern (Score:1, Funny)