trying to not overdo the FUD, but ...

        http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Privacy&articleId=9114595&taxonomyId=84&pageNumber=1

Chrome's 'suggest" and IE8's similar feature send full keystrokes (Chrome) or completed URL's (IE8) to their appropriate don't-be-evil owners and they keep the information for 9 (was more till this week) / 18 months including logon ID's and passwords where sent. Data kept at vearious stages and % of sessions retained vary. 

While there's half a chance that neither of these august entities intend to do moe than make a trillabuck  with the information that people send them, the opportunities for hackers, opportuinists and the randomly lucky seem golden.



                    Russell


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