full-disclosure - blocking Google Desktop

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Message-ID: <43ECEB57.8000708@csuohio.edu>
Date: Fri Feb 10 19:37:07 2006
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: blocking Google Desktop

> I would also venture to say that they should be publicizing
> information for corporations to be able to block this wholesale
> (google desktop and gmail chat), since we all know there are financial
> institutions where people work, and think nothing of saving customer
> data onto laptops.

Agreed. I'm actually working on testing it now, to figure out how to 
write snort sigs to (detect) and/or (block) it -- assuming I can't just 
blackhole *desktop.google.com on DNS.

I might just block their ads as well (/pagead/iclk? in URLs) out of 
spite for them doing this stupid trick with their desktop product.

FWIW, we're sending out notices that this is NOT to be installed on any 
University-owned PC, violators get their machine re-imaged.

Cheers,

Michael Holstein CISSP GCIA
Cleveland State University