Google Desktop v 5.5 (5.8.0806.18441) was released July 1, 2008. Google Desktop v 5.8 (5.8.0809.08522) was released September 11, 2008. Google Desktop v 5.8 (5.8.0809.23506) was released October 5, 2008. Google Desktop v 5.9 (5.9.0906.04286) was released July 8, 2009. It added support for the Chrome browser and is the last version mentioned in the release notes. Google Desktop v 5.9.0909.02235 added support for the Private Browsing features of Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8. Google Desktop v 5.9.0909.30391 has been released. Google Desktop v 5.9.0911.03589 has been released. Google Desktop v 5.9.1005.12335 was released in May 2010. Google Desktop was discontinued entirely on September 14, 2011. Mac In April 2007, Google released Desktop 1.0 for Mac OS X, which can function alongside the Spotlight search tool in Mac OS X v10.4. On November 29, 2007, Google released Desktop v1.4.0.826 beta for Mac OS X, which plugs into Dashboard for Gadgets support. Version 1.6 of the Mac version of Google Desktop does not function under Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Linux Google released Desktop 1.0 for Linux on June 27, 2007. It currently features the basic functionality of the Windows version and the sidebar functionality. Google added 64-bit support to the Google Desktop for Linux with version 1.1.1.0075, which was made available for download on December 18, 2007. Google Desktop for Linux version 1.2.0.0088 was released on April 11, 2008. Criticisms Security In February 2007, Yair Amit, of Watchfire, found a series of vulnerabilities in Google Desktop that could allow a malicious individual to achieve not only remote, persistent access to sensitive data, but in some cases full system control as well. The significant impact and the ease of exploitation forced Google to change some of Google Desktop's logic in Google Desktop version 5. Privacy Many privacy and civil liberties groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have concerns that personal information on people's computers could readily be copied from users' hard drives. Google Desktop version 3 contains certain features that raise serious security and privacy concerns. Specifically, the share across computers feature, which introduces the ability to search content from desktop to desktop, greatly increases the risk to users' privacy. If Google Desktop V.3 is set to allow Search Across Computers, files on an indexed computer are copied to Google's servers. The potential for information stored on their computers to be accessed by others if they enable this