Re: Google Desktop Search

[Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu () deaddrop org>]

Dogo wrote:

> Hi everybody!
>
> I decided to test Google Desktop Search 

Hope that this was just a test machine. I would have been a bit nervous 
to try this on anything I needed, myself.

> ...In the beginning I put my nick to play with, Dogo. The
> research came with a bit more than I expected 'cause the engine  went to some webmail based accounts: Yahoo and MSN. I 
> could click in the results and opened my Yahoo Mail inbox page without a password.

Perhaps you have something that says funnel all email to a specific 
account; perhaps you *do* have a "remember my password" set somewhere. 
Lots of perhaps here; you might want to ghost the drive, and do a little 
forensics off line, to see if there are presents left behind.

> Well, I just used for maybe 20 minutes until the index was being prepared. I uninstalled the tool.
>  

You *hope* you uninstalled it. Checked the registry? Sounds a bit to me 
like Google is working to be the next Big Blue/Microsoft. Excellent. 
Survival of the fittest.

> Did someone try it? Any opinion? 
>  

I'd recommend that someone try a couple of installs on a private 
network, and watch what goes in or out. Sounds interesting, for certain 
values of interesting.

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