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From: mike at ampeisch.com (mike@...eisch.com) Subject: Google Desktop Search The associated MAC address will belong to the last router before their server, won't it? M. > Hmmmm... I wonder if their keeping a database of these numbers and the > associated IP and/or MAC address as well? > > Has anyone installed this on a non-networked machine? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Landesman" <mlande@...lsouth.net> > To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com> > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:34 AM > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Google Desktop Search > > >> >From their privacy policy: >> >> ------------------------------- >> Your copy of Google Desktop Search includes a unique application number. >> When you install Google Desktop Search, this number and a message > indicating >> whether the installation succeeded is sent back to Google so that we can >> make the software work better. Additionally, when Google Desktop Search >> automatically checks to see if a new version is available, the current >> version number and the unique application number are sent to Google. If > you >> choose to send us non-personal information about your use of Google > Desktop >> Search, the unique application number with this non-personal information >> also helps us understand how you use Google Desktop Search so that we >> can >> make it work better. The unique application number is required for >> Google >> Desktop Search to work and cannot be disabled. >> ------------------------------- >> >> >> The unique application number is required for Google Desktop Search >> to >> work and cannot be disabled. << >> >> I have to wonder why that is. >> >> -- Mary >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ivan Krstic" <krstic@....harvard.edu> >> To: "DogoBrazil" <dogobrazil@...mac.com> >> Cc: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com> >> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:14 AM >> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Google Desktop Search >> >> >> > DogoBrazil wrote: >> > > 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. Maybe some password >> lost > in >> > > my HD? Maybe some page cached? >> > >> > http://desktop.google.com/index.html enumerates the file types that >> > Google Desktop Search currently indexes. Your IE cache and Outlook >> > correspondence will also get indexed, so you could have been looking >> at >> > either a page from your browser cache, or a page you manually saved to >> > your hard drive. The program itself most certainly does not include >> > functionality to index remote, web-based mailboxes such as Yahoo and > MSN. >> > >> > Ivan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >> Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > >
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