I have been googling about potential security risks associated with the end-users' use of Gears. Strangely, Google seems to not be making any public comments on this subject. If I'm wrong, please direct me to where they discuss it.
As they are trying to court developers by "opening up" the code, they are also allowing others to possibly exploit this brand new idea that people don't know much about. I can't imagine that Google has not considered this, but is it not a little irresponsible to not address these things if they are allowing others to exploit this technology. Afterall, many people will most likely believe things are safer because it says Google. I did find some articles by others pointing out security issues. For my personal use, I will have the common sense to not just allow any site to use gears (in fact, I am only using gears with GApps.) But I'm sure many less careful people will be jumping on the Gears ship because it sounds cool, or it might just be a curiosity. Does anyone have nay more info on this topic?
