stltech
join:2002-01-27
Florissant, MO | nice
not a bug! lol |
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ViniTheHat
Hat Trickery
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join:2002-09-29
Brooklyn, NY | i love exciting features!
my SUV was designed to roll over. it adds excitement!
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navalpatel
join:2003-07-28
Lubbock, TX | lmfao... |
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Phucker
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join:2001-09-12
Reno, NV
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big security issues here. Especially for a public machine.
It makes screen captures as well.
I found my bank statement in its cache and it just brings it up. |
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kpatz
MY HEAD A SPLODE
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join:2003-06-13
Manchester, NH
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Re: i love exciting features!
Public PCs should be configured to clear browser cache and history when the browser is closed. Then search tools wouldn't have this "flaw".
Google's tool is just indexing files on the hard drive. You can browse the cache on your PC and find stuff on there yourself, with or without Google.
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Schnook
I Flatulate On Your Approximate Azimuth.
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join:2004-04-12
1 edit | First, IPO...
...then shareholder value is all.
Users? BAH!
Minimicrosoft built before your very eyes. |
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antiphishing
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join:2004-06-09
Wilkes Barre, PA
|  [Info] Removing the ads in Gmail with Firefox
Do you find the text ads in GMail to be annoying? If you do, you can use Firefox to hide the ads from displaying.
»www.digitalmediaminute.com/artic···om-gmail
»addict3d.org/index.php?page=view···&ID=3416
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»www.antihotmail.com
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DreamCarr
Winter Sucks.
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join:2001-04-16
6D 6F 6F 00
| said by antiphishing  :
Do you find the text ads in GMail to be annoying? If you do, you can use Firefox to hide the ads from displaying.
»www.digitalmediaminute.com/artic···om-gmail
»addict3d.org/index.php?page=view···&ID=3416
i honestly dont even see the ads... there're kinda low-key
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exocet_cm
In memory of dadkins
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join:2003-03-23
New Orleans, LA
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| Hold up...
Your telling me that you can use this google desktop to bypass security features designed to keep your stuff secure?
With that in mind, doens't this pose a security risk?
BTW: That SUV thing was great! kudos for you! 
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tcp1
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1 edit | reply to Phucker
Re: Holy shit!
Oh, whatever. Learn how to use a computer. That stuff is there anyways - Google is just FINDING IT, for chrissakes. Windows search would do the same thing, just slower.
Dumb user interfaces and lowered expectations have raised a generation that has no idea what's going on behind their shiny browser window, and that's a problem.
Your web mail has ALWAYS been in your cache. Don't fault google just for the fact that their utility finds the damn files. |
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russotto
join:2000-10-05
Collegeville, PA
| Where bug? THERE bug!
The bug isn't in the search tool. It's in webmail programs which don't indicate that the information shouldn't be cached or in browsers that cache secured data (insecurely).
If it's stored unencrypted on your hard disk, anyone with access to your hard disk can read it; the search tool only exposes that. Probably doesn't even go that far, as I doubt it breaks user security (that WOULD be a bug). |
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tcp1
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| reply to exocet_cm
Re: Hold up...
Again, exocet, you too need to learn how things actually work.
It's not bypassing anything. The files are already there in your cache. Anybody with an IQ over six could find them and read them, whether Google Desktop is installed or not. Google is just including them in the search of your machine.
Yeah, put security risk in bold because there are hackers EVERYWHERE just trying to find out what you ordered from Amazon!
You're causing pointless panic.
Somebody please try to spin this, huh? How exactly is this creating a !!!SECURITY RISK!!! that wasn't already there? |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
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1 edit | If This Wasn't Proof Enough
If the statement "This is not a bug, rather a feature," wasn't proof enough that Google wants to be the next Microsoft, I don't know what is...
Oh well, at least they aren't trying to tell us that 640K is more memory than anyone will ever need.
-tom
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RickNY
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join:2000-11-02
New York
| reply to russotto
Re: Where bug? THERE bug!
It has absolutely nothing to do with the cache... The Desktop installs an LSP that intercepts the network traffic.. When you open pages in your browser, the Google Desktop's local cache server on YOUR machine gets the HTML data and takes a snapshot.. It does that for web pages -- and as far as I can tell, thats also how it does IM conversations (Try searching for an AIM conversation that you had with AIM encryption on -- you will see that the Google Desktop ends up caching the encrypted form of the IM conversation).
This is a powerful application.. People have to be aware of exactly what they are getting into when they use it.. Would I install it on anything other than a machine that only I had access to? Only if I was willing to take the time to configure it to ensure that the stuff I didnt want stored in the cache was excluded..
A bug? Not quite... Users that don't know exactly what this application is doing? Yes..
Rick
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cjsmith
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join:2000-11-03
Villa Rica, GA
1 edit | reply to Phucker
Re: Holy shit!
Here is the Features FAQ's link:
»desktop.google.com/support/bin/t···opic=111
Pay particular attention to this Q&A as it relates to your security questions:
How can I remove something from my results?
Privacy Q & A's |
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aliasrlz
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join:2000-09-01
the world
| lol...
have to admit, them saying it is a "feature" instead of a bug is the most ridiculous statement ever made ....
what an idiot ....
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wifi4milez
Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | reply to stltech
Re: nice
What I REALLY want to know is how to clear the cache of this information so it can't be found! Anyone know? |
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SequimPC
Got Fiber?
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join:2004-02-11
Sequim, WA
| google me this....Batman
I don't see the correlation between google and M$???
People just seem to hate anyone who gets ahead these days.
Possibly the poor dot-com bastards from years past, angry they didn't create a decent business/marketing plan.
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exocet_cm
In memory of dadkins
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| reply to tcp1
Re: Hold up...
Never mind then, if the files are in the cache then your right, my little sister could get to em.
The google desktop is not a security risk because the files are already there, it's just allowing the user of the program "easier" access to the files. So whatever was a risk before is still a risk now, no difference.
quote:
Again, exocet, you too need to learn how things actually work.
That is why I ask
Other than the above suggestions about clearing the cache, would enabling "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" prevent e-mail on an encrypted page to save to the disk?
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nolancj
join:2002-06-30
Long Beach, CA
|  This is a joke
Please people, these files already exist. Google just made it easier to find them. Second, turn OFF the " Include secure pages (HTTPS) in web history" option and it won't cache the HTTPS files.
Geeze, RTFM before you get all sensational.
Idiots. |
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