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Google Desktop for Mac Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the very-frooty dept.

Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes "Google on Tuesday will release a Mac version of Google Desktop. This software, like the PC version, indexes the content of a hard drive and serves it up on familiar Google-style search-result Web pages (or via a its own drop-down results list, if you prefer). But Google Desktop for the Mac is streamlined compared to the busy, gadget-y Windows version, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The focus is squarely on search — including local indexing of an online Gmail account of your choice. It will also index your iDisk."

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  1. Are you kidding me? by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My Mac is the most secure machine of all my systems and now you want me to punch a HUGE hole in my security/privacy by allowing google full, unfettered access to my hard drive and to upload that onto the internet? WTF are people thinking when they do stupid shit like this?
    And people wonder why hundreds of millions of instances of identity theft happen ever year.
    I've been a victim of it myself and I don't take it lightly.

    Just last week my daughter was again a victim of identity theft, a girl she knows has been going around using my daughters identity (who now lives in London), she even stole her social security number. The girl was arrested several times for impersonating my daughter and ended up on probation. Then last week she was arrested again for public intoxication, she gave the cops my daughters info then even signed a bail bond with my daughters name. As she was bonding out the cops ran a more thorough check and found some flags against my daughters name (because of this girl) so the re-arrested her for identity theft right there. Now she's up on felony charges, repeat offender and violation of probation. She hopefully will get 2 to 5 years in state prison. I hope..
    But forever more, my daughter has her name flagged in police databases and if she ever gets pulled over for any reason she's going to have a tough time proving that she really is the real her and not the imposter.

    People that use google desktop are STUPID.. You go ahead and let google store your hard drive indexes and god knows what else on some server that's out of your physical control. And when your identity gets stolen and your life turns to shit in a skillet, don't bitch because you won't have a leg to stand on.

    I would rather sand paper a bobcat's ass in a phone booth than use google in any way for any thing.
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