full-disclosure - blocking Google Desktop

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Date: Fri Feb 10 19:38:34 2006
From: kyphros at gmail.com (Mike Owen)
Subject: blocking Google Desktop

On 2/10/06, Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@...ohio.edu> wrote:
> I'm sure many of you corporate types are scared to death of the new
> Google Desktop (allowing Google to store anything on my drive for a month).
>
> Question : what's the most effective way to block this on a network level?
>
> Does blackholeing desktop.google.com do the trick and prevent it from
> reporting (even if already installed) ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Holstein
> Cleveland State University

You could always try an authenticated proxy that all traffic must pass
through. Last I checked, Google Desktop couldn't deal with an
authenticated proxy.

Mike