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http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_02.php#004400

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Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop San Francisco - Google today announced a new "feature" of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new "Search Across Computers" feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user's computers. EFF urges consumers not to use this feature, because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who've obtained a user's Google password.

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Jukov

yes but who cares 'bout my spreadsheets? I mean the really sensitive business data is always off line anyway.

JMJSelect

Originally Posted by Jukov

yes but who cares 'bout my spreadsheets? I mean the really sensitive business data is always off line anyway.

tell that to the dumb masses.

you have to have 2 computers in todays world, one connected one not. its the only safe way to surf and be 100,000% safe

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Originally Posted by JMJSelect

Tell that to the dumb masses. You have to have 2 computers in todays world, one connected, one not. Its the only safe way to surf and be 100,000% safe

Or more than two connected or not.

Sensitive data computers are not online. We move data 'as req'd' when we are sure. Backup, backup, backup. :hide:

Secure passwords, often changed, keeping sensitive "stuff" offline!

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