full-disclosure - blocking Google Desktop

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Date: Fri Feb 10 18:33:49 2006
From: jlevitsk at joshie.com (Joshua Levitsky)
Subject: blocking Google Desktop

Sorry, but explain? You mean something beyond the index of your  
personal data then? Did they add something beyond that?

-Josh


On Feb 10, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Michael Holstein 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
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