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Flaw in Google's New Desktop Tool [Update: Fixed!]
silassewell writes "A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious security flaw [Sell your soul to the NYTimes to Read] in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by Google." Update: 12/21 03:15 GMT by T : An anonymous reader writes "It's being reported that the security problem in Google's Desktop Search has been plugged."
"When you put them together, out jumps a security flaw." What is this, magic?
Learn how to format paragraphs, and post anonymously you filthy Karma Whore!
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Uhh--it's a troll. A good one, at that; notice the subtle use of dollar signs to smear the good reputation of Microsnot, as well as the subtle assignment of blame to WinDOS for the coder's error.
Your definition of minimalism is probably different than a lot of other people's. Keep that in mind. I can't function unless I have at least a compiler, if not a full-blown IDE on the computer I'm using. Same thing goes for Photoshop and me.
You may not have either, and may disregard the need for me or anyone else to have these. Just remember, everyone's different. Because you don't find something useful doesn't mean someone else won't.
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Kudos to you for admitting your need for p0rn.
Far too many people let shame take away their abilty to admit they like the stuff.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
So this story is a case of "All your BS are belong to us"?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Not only did you get a -1 redundant, but you also got it on a 1st Post!
This elusive prize is given by sharp moderators who rate your posts on the basis of what future posts might contain!
Do break your paragraphs next time.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Next Google "scandal": GDS updates automatically without user intervention!!!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I don't suppose anyone knows what types of vehicles are popular with the students at Rice University?
Then again, I'm sure someone will find an exploit in Calculator or Freecell given time.
--- Ban humanity.
you had me worried for a sec. I thought there might have been a secret button that pops up that says, "find your husband's porn".
Stop the press! Bug in beta app! "Oh no!" Waves hands in the air, and runs around in circles. "Who will save us now? Who will save us?!!"
Get your own free personal location tracker
Isn't it aweful when you try to sell your soul, and then Satan gets back to you a little later, talking about a pre-existing lein? The look on His face, the patronizing way He talks down to you... I can't stand it. It's so embarrassing.
See our for more information, but iirc they embeded the local search results in an iframe, which separates the security concerns so that the java applet and javascript security models prevent us from accessing local information.
Shame!?
If i start telling people about my multi terabyte porn collection they start asking me to send it to them!!
wait... umm I don't have any porn.. nothing to see here...
Which, by the way, reminds me of the time a friend asked me to fix his computer, and while running a virus scan, the progress window soon started running through his porn directories flashing some pretty embarassing filenames.
And that went on for a good 10 minutes or so.
All i could say was "Well, we do need to do the virus scan."
Damn it. Now everyone (who reads several levels down in /. ) knows...