full-disclosure - blocking Google Desktop

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Date: Mon Feb 13 18:27:01 2006
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: blocking Google Desktop

> I am using Google desktop version 4. By default search across computers 
> is not enabled. Can someone explain me why all the noise if I just don't 
> use the feature.

True, it's not enabled by default, but Google is pitching this as an 
easy way to access your work documents from home (or vise-versa) .. and 
*that* is a serious security risk.

In the corporate world, users don't get to make their own choices. 
Management makes them, and it's the IT department's job to enforce that 
-- against the user's will kicking and screaming, if necessary.

~Mike.