Friday, May 06, 2005

Security Fears Over Google Accelerator

Well you knew this was going to happen
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Posted by Zonk on Friday May 06, @01:31PM
from the road-to-hell-is-paved-with-web-caching dept.
Espectr0 writes 'A software tool launched by Google on Wednesday that speeds up the process of downloading Web sites (covered recently on Slashdot) has caused some users to worry about their privacy. A ZDNet article discusses problems that users have been experiencing with the information that is cached by the software. On a Google Labs discussion group, one user said that 'I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know...'' Commentary also available on Signal vs. Noise and BlogNewsChannel."

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