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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."
but I thought twice about this when I saw it advertised on Google. A Third party search device? I mean windows has enough problems of it's own, without using a third party application to search for files. Glad I waited.
Google puts out a perfectly dandy little tool, and Windows has to come along and ruin it!
Why can't Micor$oft clean up their act? Maybe if they weren't driven so hard by profits, benevolent organizations like Google wouldn't be forced to release insecure software.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
When is the linux release of google desktop? *FLAW FIXED*
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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another troubled fueling internal all along. *BSD handy, you anre free
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Vote Quimby.