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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 2004-10-22
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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