Filed under: Security, Windows, Google
Google Desktop 3 a privacy risk
by Jordan Running Feb 13th 2006 at 2:00PM
Google Desktop 3, which was released last Wednesday, has a feature that's raising they eyebrows of
security-types. The Search Across Computers feature lets users of Google Desktop 3 simultaneously search files stored
on multiple computers, but the EFF is warning that
Google will copy the files to its servers, and that "the government could then demand these personal files with
only a subpoena rather than the search warrant it would need to seize the same things from your home or business, and
in many cases you wouldn't even be notified in time to challenge it." Search Across Computers is not enabled by
default, but you might want to think twice about turning it on.[Via Street Tech]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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