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Version: Google Desktop 3
"LARGE Privacy Risk - A VERY Bad Idea"
Pros: convenient for hackers and Government
Cons: excerpted from Electronic Frontier Foundation article @ eff(dot)org
Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation
Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop
San Francisco - Google today announced a new "feature" of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new "Search Across Computers" feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user's computers. EFF urges consumers not to use this feature, because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who've obtained a user's Google password.
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You have a bad rep for reviewing girl.....
could it be because
110 of them appear to be copied and pasted fom
clib board or note pad.
Please, start being origional or quit revireing.
see what it feels like. I can do the same thing.
Some think you get paid for doing this. Do you?
Get the picture yet. COPY AND PASTE< COPY AND PASTE!
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110 of them appear to be copied and pasted fom clib board or note pad. Please, start being origional or quit revireing.
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Yeah right. Turn it off. Hilarious!
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is you have to voulentarily turn this "privacy risk feature" on.
Or, if you have turned it on, you can turn it off....
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In your view apparently "play nice" means don't disagree with the status quo, and by all means I should be a 'trusting soul' (useful idiot), who refrains from questioning "the authorities".
I don't work for SWW. I do not agree with some of Oldfrog's assumptions, and neither will I ever be one of Suzi's lap dog sycophants. I think for myself. Maybe you should try it.
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OldFrog has warned you about posts like these. You know better than to cast aspersions when you don't have all the facts. Play nice or you'll get in trouble @ sww again.
And stop with the conspiracy theories already. Stay on topic for a change.
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It is an honor to be stalked by CRAWLER/IBIS Websearch.
If reposting Spyware Warrior warnings about phony anti-spyware wasn't effective, they would not be doing it.
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Let me tell you something funny about webgrrrl, she first called me simon someone in her other reviews last month, now she calls me part of crawler, and tomorrow she will say I run claria, and after that I invented adware. You see my point. This is the person you want to trust for your reviews???
She gets paid and when she is caught she gets delusional and starts reviewing. This person doesn't review products just spits out review. Its almost comedic to see her defend and belittle a product she has not tried. Don't trust her reviews.
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