exocet_cm
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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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| 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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exocet_cm
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| 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.
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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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tcp1
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Herndon, VA | By all accounts, it should - as long as your access your webmail through HTTPS. Accessing it through HTTP is a bad idea anyways. |
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exocet_cm
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