Who keeps their credit card number on their computer? Or passwords for that fact?

warpmedia wrote:
Sure sounds like why I never installed Google Desktop!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051202/tc_pcworld/123826

A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser gives phishers a way to scan the hard drives of Google Desktop users, according to an Israeli hacker. Because of a flaw in the way IE processes Web pages, a malicious Web site could use the attack to steal sensitive information like credit card numbers or passwords from the hard drives of its visitors.

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