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Comment Larry Summers? (Score 1) 847

by blchrist on Monday June 16, 2008 @08:54AM (#23809119) Attached to: Do Women Write Better Code?

Didn't Larry Summers get run out of Harvard for saying very similar things?

A Second Google Desktop Vulnerability 80

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 25, 2007 @04:47AM from the anti-anti-anti-DNS-pinning dept.

zakkie writes "According to InfoWorld, Google's Desktop indexing engine is vulnerable to an exploit (the second such flaw to be found) that could allow crackers to read files or execute code. By exploiting a cross-site scripting vulnerability on google.com, an attacker can grab all the data off a Google Desktop. Google is said to be investigating. A security researcher is quoted: 'The users really have very little ability to protect themselves against these attacks. It's very bad. Even the experts are afraid to click on each other's links anymore.'"

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