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This thing stores saved passwords in plain text. Like everything else in IT, it has security vulnerabilities which will need to be managed. This will bypass gro

This thing stores saved passwords in plain text. Like everything else in IT, it has security vulnerabilities which will need to be managed. This will bypass group policy restrictions preventing the use of plugins, downloading of files/web-fonts, etc and has no central management functionaltiy. Google is likely to enable it for accessing GMail, Google Enterprise Apps, etc - which means large companies and governments are not going to be happy about this at all. They may have just killed off quite a bit of their enterprise credibility here...

mixmastamyk 15y ago
If a company is using IE6 (whilst giving lipservice to security) it deserves to die in a fire. Hopefully it shall promptly meet its doom in favor of more technically adept competitors ... the IT equivalent of the Darwin Awards.
- dingle_thunk 15y ago
  This plugin still works if a company has deployed IE9 and Group Policy compatible builds of Firefox or whatever else. It's a Google-endorsed way around group policy.
  - mixmastamyk 15y ago
    Right, after I wrote that I watched the video and noticed it appeared to work only on Win7, making it mostly useless. Still, no tears shed.
tomjen3 15y ago
Google (correctly) sees attitudes like that as a threat against the free web they need to run their business and are routing around it. They don't care about "enterprise credibility" or whether they allow some companies to restrict what their users can do.
- dingle_thunk 15y ago
  It's technically correct, but governments are going to have a big problem with this. It's going to make it pretty hard for them to sell enterprise solutions. Just sayin'.
  - tomjen3 15y ago
    Governments already hate google. As for selling enterprise solutions that was never googles main focus so that is a little like saying that Microsoft will have trouble selling word to vi fans.
vmind 15y ago
They're adding Group Policy support and msi installers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YkEUpJQP3o&feature=player_detailpage#t=2049s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YkEUpJQP3o&feature=playe...). There's not a lot of detail there but they're not ignoring it.

mixmastamyk 15y ago

If a company is using IE6 (whilst giving lipservice to security) it deserves to die in a fire. Hopefully it shall promptly meet its doom in favor of more technically adept competitors ... the IT equivalent of the Darwin Awards.

dingle_thunk 15y ago
This plugin still works if a company has deployed IE9 and Group Policy compatible builds of Firefox or whatever else. It's a Google-endorsed way around group policy.
- mixmastamyk 15y ago
  Right, after I wrote that I watched the video and noticed it appeared to work only on Win7, making it mostly useless. Still, no tears shed.

tomjen3 15y ago

Google (correctly) sees attitudes like that as a threat against the free web they need to run their business and are routing around it. They don't care about "enterprise credibility" or whether they allow some companies to restrict what their users can do.

dingle_thunk 15y ago
It's technically correct, but governments are going to have a big problem with this. It's going to make it pretty hard for them to sell enterprise solutions. Just sayin'.
- tomjen3 15y ago
  Governments already hate google. As for selling enterprise solutions that was never googles main focus so that is a little like saying that Microsoft will have trouble selling word to vi fans.

vmind 15y ago

They're adding Group Policy support and msi installers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YkEUpJQP3o&feature=player_detailpage#t=2049s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YkEUpJQP3o&feature=playe...). There's not a lot of detail there but they're not ignoring it.