Yesterday in my surfing, I came across a report about Google Desktop Search (GDS) being vulnerable to a CSS hack that would reveal all of your personal information if you use IE. [here]
I have GDS at work and at home. I would put it on Esther’s Mac if I could. In other words, Google could own me.
Google did the right thing.
They patched GDS and now the problem is solved. [here]
I have to give some mad props to Google for doing that. It shows how a responsible company reacts to issues that effect their users in dangerous ways. Google is good. MS is bad.
This is a great segue into the other news.
Firefox 1.5 is now out. Mozilla.com [ not ORG ] is where you can get this secure browser and guess what… it plays nice with GDS