New Google tool for searching computers a privacy risk on shared PCs

New Google tool for searching computers a privacy risk on shared PCs
Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press 2004-10-18

People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new security risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data.

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New Google tool for searching computers a privacy risk on shared PCs 2004-10-19
pandit_gs (at) rediffmail.co (dot) in [email concealed]

Hi,

Its a nice tool but can be used by malicious people for spying someone else's personal information and that is bad. One of its feature of revelation of passwords mar the idea of having passwords. This tool poses to be a double-edged sword, whose usage depends upon the intentions of the user. ...

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New Google tool for searching computers a privacy risk on shared PCs 2004-10-19
Anonymous

Although in fact this is true, I would think by now that people should know not to pass private information at public terminals. People need to be responsible for their behavior.

Further, owners of public terminals have a responsibility to provide some level of security, in particular by not all...

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New Google tool for searching computers a privacy risk on shared PCs 2004-10-22
Anonymous

Ive tried the software personally and I think that it is a great search engine. I am the only user at my terminal at work and I am the only user of the software therefore there is no real security threat for me. Even if other people were to use my computer the google software isn't doing anyting o...

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