]Google Desktop Search might just be too good. Using the new ]software, I was able to bypass user names and passwords that ]secure Web-based e-mail programs and view personal messages sent ]and received on public PCs. ]Using Google's new software on a shared computer at the Google ]booth at the Digital Life trade show floor I was able to easily ]search for, find, and read private Yahoo e-mail sent on the ]computer by previous users earlier in the day. ]Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products, told ]me she wasn't surprised. "This is not a bug, rather a feature," ]she says. Google always intended people to be able to index and ]search Web-based e-mail viewed and composed on PC, she says. ]Google Desktop Search is not intended to be used on computers ]that are shared with more than one person, she say. She specifically said it was not intended for shared computers. Google Desktop Search: Security Threat (The other side) |