Hmmmm... I wonder if their keeping a database of these numbers and the associated IP and/or MAC address as well?
Has anyone installed this on a non-networked machine? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Landesman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Google Desktop Search > >From their privacy policy: > > ------------------------------- > Your copy of Google Desktop Search includes a unique application number. > When you install Google Desktop Search, this number and a message indicating > whether the installation succeeded is sent back to Google so that we can > make the software work better. Additionally, when Google Desktop Search > automatically checks to see if a new version is available, the current > version number and the unique application number are sent to Google. If you > choose to send us non-personal information about your use of Google Desktop > Search, the unique application number with this non-personal information > also helps us understand how you use Google Desktop Search so that we can > make it work better. The unique application number is required for Google > Desktop Search to work and cannot be disabled. > ------------------------------- > > >> The unique application number is required for Google Desktop Search to > work and cannot be disabled. << > > I have to wonder why that is. > > -- Mary > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ivan Krstic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "DogoBrazil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:14 AM > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Google Desktop Search > > > > DogoBrazil wrote: > > > The research came > > > with a bit more than I expected 'cause the engine went to some webmail > > > based accounts: Yahoo and MSN. I could click in the results and opened > > > my Yahoo Mail inbox page without a password. Maybe some password lost in > > > my HD? Maybe some page cached? > > > > http://desktop.google.com/index.html enumerates the file types that > > Google Desktop Search currently indexes. Your IE cache and Outlook > > correspondence will also get indexed, so you could have been looking at > > either a page from your browser cache, or a page you manually saved to > > your hard drive. The program itself most certainly does not include > > functionality to index remote, web-based mailboxes such as Yahoo and MSN. > > > > Ivan > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
