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Flaw in Google's New Desktop Tool [Update: Fixed!]

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-just-not-good dept.

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."

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  1. So what is the flaw? by JPriest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Either NYT left that out or I missed it, so what is it?

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