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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. Security Flaw in Google DeskTop by RagingChipmunk · · Score: 1, Troll

    The security flaw in Google DeskTop was revealed to be the underlying operating system. Google has published an advisory recommending its customers patch their Windows operating system by installing Linux.

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  2. Re:Too Late by multimed · · Score: 0, Troll
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    And she likes it.

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