Security Alert: NEVER USE GOOGLE DESKTOP!

I was browsing around one of my favorite websites, the EFF.Org and found an interesting piece of information discouraging people from using the new version of Google Desktop. According to EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston, "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." For further details, go to this link.

A real cause for concern especially for me since one of the computers I administer is actually using Google Desktop to index our company's internal documentation library. I will also be using an alternative indexing program called Copernic Desktop Search, cross my fingers and hope that it does not have a similar security flaw.

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