full-disclosure - blocking Google Desktop

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Message-ID: <200602131817.k1DIH0hj023844@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon Feb 13 18:17:10 2006
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: blocking Google Desktop 

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:38:41 +0530, Prabhat Sharma said:

> 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.

The noise is because many of us have dozens, or hundreds, or thousands of
users we're responsible for, who *will* enable it because it looks cool, not
realizing the security implications.  A significant fraction will enable it
Just Because, even though they then never actually *use* the functionality....
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