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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
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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