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Googling Your Way Into Hacking

knifee writes "New scientist is running an article explaining how hackers can use Google's cache to quickly hunt down sensitive pages, for example, by searching the terms "bash history", "temporary" and "password". Might be worth looking at this tutorial about robots.txt if you think you might be at risk." That's pretty amusing.

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  1. FROSTY ON MY POSTY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rock on hax0rs.

  2. not first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is not the first post. continue reading.

  3. More information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More information about this sort of thing can be found here.

  4. OH YES YOU DO FUCKING FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU FAIL IT!

    CLIT > GNAA

  5. Hacker, not cracker? by Phantasmo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I find it kind of depressing that even in Slashdot abstracts the word hacker isn't translated into the more correct "cracker".

    In this case, you could argue that using Google's cache to track down information for the purposes of cracking is very clever and is therefore deserving of being called a "hack", making the cracker a hacker.

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    The US Army: promoting democracy through unquestioned obedience
  6. Other good methods. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Searching for post it notes in the sys admins room
    Annoying slashdot trolls
    Use linux
    And ask them what their mothers maiden name is.

  7. TACO QUIT MODDING DOWN PEOPLE AS OVERRATED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    STOP CHEATING THE SYSTEM SO YOU CAN AVOID METAMOD.

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING

  8. script kiddies by y77 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have several methods for password in the other pages. Of course, its content. Now Im really sensitive about it from their cache until Google requesting robots.txt more often than they are dozens of all the deflecction technique in ~/.bash_history? The first thing I disallow /unpub only. That contains su in the a number of google searches. The only 2 history in apaches mod_rewrite to my site map of those two thats how much is a perl script kitty tool as it is a deflecction technique. The next thing I would imagine is that it should work. Is anyone aware of my site? Of course I have a box that is a mistake and wiped it. Everyone must aware of those are who are Unix stupid, so they dont even know what my cat could script, if I say kitty instead of kiddie because even then, it's a webserver!

  9. THE MOST AMAZING LINUX SOFTWARE IS CINERELLA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Somebody please submit a story about Linux video editing software! THIS IS SOMETHING RADICAL AND EARTH SHAKIN'! Superior _professional_ video editing software made by some uberintelligent individual for Linux and it is open source! A truly unbelievable piece of software!

    Here's description from the website:
    ---
    Movie studio in a box.

    Heroine Virtual Ltd. presents an advanced compositing and editing system for native Linux at no cost to users.

    Native Linux: that means no emulation of proprietary operating systems and no additional commercial software required. When you run a native Linux program, it's like you wrote the software yourself and are completely untied from corporate interests.

    Of course, Linux isn't the first word that comes to mind when you think of content creation. Neither would you dare say Linux and general purpose computing in the same sentence, unless you were insane. That was before Cinelerra was invented.

    For guys like you - Linux gurus who also like general purpose computing - there's eliteness in doing the unusual. You want to create your own niche. You want to try things no-one else will.

    Cinelerra is not for consumer use. If ease of use, simplicity, and convenience are your thing, you should use Virtualdub, Kino, MJPEG tools or MainActor instead.

    If you want to make movies, you want the compositing and editing that the big boys use, you want the efficiency of an embedded UNIX operating system combined with the power of a general purpose PC, or you just want to defy the establishment, the time has come to download Cinelerra.

    Along the way, we discovered video processing takes too long to do on a single computer so we put renderfarm support into Cinelerra. The biggest difference between this renderfarm and normal renderfarms is you don't need to pay for node licenses.

    Then of course, you don't want to wait for effects to render before finding the result of your tweeking, so now there's background renderfarm. For now on, no effect is too slow, no resolution too high, to get realtime previews. Keep piling on terrahertz Athlons and terrabit ethernet to background render more. No terrahertz Athlon? Make someone invent it. With background renderfarm, the only limit is the crumbling national economy.

    Imagine a laptop which didn't need dongles to run anything. Imagine not having to phone in and wait a week to renew licenses every week.

    Now Cinelerra is by no means a lightweight program. You'll need something slightly less sexy than a handheld organizer to run it most effectively.

  10. WELL..LET ME DISAGREE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey! Somebody please submit a story of Linux video editing software! THIS IS SOMETHING RADICAL AND EARTH SHAKIN'! Superior _professional_ video editing software made by some uberintelligent individual for Linux and it is open source! A truly unbelievable piece of software!

    Here's description from the website:
    ---
    Movie studio in a box.

    Heroine Virtual Ltd. presents an advanced compositing and editing system for native Linux at no cost to users.

    Native Linux: that means no emulation of proprietary operating systems and no additional commercial software required. When you run a native Linux program, it's like you wrote the software yourself and are completely untied from corporate interests.

    Of course, Linux isn't the first word that comes to mind when you think of content creation. Neither would you dare say Linux and general purpose computing in the same sentence, unless you were insane. That was before Cinelerra was invented.

    For guys like you - Linux gurus who also like general purpose computing - there's eliteness in doing the unusual. You want to create your own niche. You want to try things no-one else will.

    Cinelerra is not for consumer use. If ease of use, simplicity, and convenience are your thing, you should use Virtualdub, Kino, MJPEG tools or MainActor instead.

    If you want to make movies, you want the compositing and editing that the big boys use, you want the efficiency of an embedded UNIX operating system combined with the power of a general purpose PC, or you just want to defy the establishment, the time has come to download Cinelerra.

    Along the way, we discovered video processing takes too long to do on a single computer so we put renderfarm support into Cinelerra. The biggest difference between this renderfarm and normal renderfarms is you don't need to pay for node licenses.

    Then of course, you don't want to wait for effects to render before finding the result of your tweeking, so now there's background renderfarm. For now on, no effect is too slow, no resolution too high, to get realtime previews. Keep piling on terrahertz Athlons and terrabit ethernet to background render more. No terrahertz Athlon? Make someone invent it. With background renderfarm, the only limit is the crumbling national economy.

    Imagine a laptop which didn't need dongles to run anything. Imagine not having to phone in and wait a week to renew licenses every week.

    Now Cinelerra is by no means a lightweight program. You'll need something slightly less sexy than a handheld organizer to run it most effectively.

  11. moron finding DOWt about whoreabull Godless.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    softwar gangsters, etc.

    a hole bunch of pumping/dumping going on now upon the pacific crest annex of wall street of deceit. so many billyonerrors on felonium.

    2003-07-23 GATES, WILLIAM H. III Chairman 206,227 Sale at $26.5812 - $26.634 per share. (Proceeds of about $5,487,000) 2003-07-23 GATES, WILLIAM H. III Chairman 476,123 Sale at $26.5371 - $26.5811 per share. (Proceeds of about $12,645,000) 2003-07-23 GATES, WILLIAM H. III Chairman 948,634 Sale at $26.484 - $26.537 per share. (Proceeds of about $25,149,000) 2003-07-23 GATES, WILLIAM H. III Chairman 1,369,016 Sale at $26.222 - $26.481 per share. (Proceeds of about $36,076,000)

    fauxking phonIE billonly FraUDs they are

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+%22sanjay+ahuja%22&btnG=Google+ Search

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+%22bill+weisgerber%22&btnG=Goog le+Search

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+attacks+linux+open+source&btnG= Google+Search

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator. vote with yOUR wallet. the daze of the Godless georgewellian fuddites is WANing into coolapps.

    looking further into the billmirror:

    2003-05-30 BALLMER, STEVEN A. Chief Executive Officer 4,551,548 Planned Sale (Estimated proceeds of $112,392,285) 2003-05-30 BALLMER, STEVEN A. Chief Executive Officer 152,619 Automatic Sale at $24.83 - $24.9 per share. (Proceeds of about $3,795,000) 2003-05-30 BALLMER, STEVEN A. Chief Executive Officer 3,993,801 Automatic Sale at $24.54 - $24.82 per share. (Proceeds of about $98,567,000) 2003-05-29 RAIKES, JEFFREY S. Vice President 400,000 Sale at $24.542 per share. (Proceeds of $9,816,800) 2003-05-29 BALLMER, STEVEN A. Chief Executive Officer 4,000,000 Automatic Sale at $24.28 - $24.64 per share. (Proceeds of about $97,840,000) 2003-05-29 BALLMER, STEVEN A. Chief Executive Officer 4,000,000 Planned Sale (Estimated proceeds of $97,832,000) 2003-05-28 BALLMER, STEVEN A. Chief Executive Officer 2,000,000 Planned Sale (Estimated proceeds of $49,313,800) 2003-05-28 BALLMER, STEVEN A. Chief Executive Officer 808,518 Automatic Sale at $24.74 - $24.86 per share. (Proceeds of about $20,051,000)

    & just whoisit do you think is REALLY paying for all of this FUDgeFest execrable?

    more details @ trustworthycomputing.com

  12. wrong wrong wrong. by mumblestheclown · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    i suspect i will be modded as a troll. oh well.. i have the karma for it.

    look - i like and use google. and, i fully appreciate that a great number of slashdotters here also like google because while it may be a for-profit closed source entity with very little transparency or accountability, at least a) it's not microsoft, and b) it works.

    however, i think a few lawsuits of google are in order. google can afford the damages, and the net will be better for it.

    as an author of a web page or even a log file, you have the right to publish and de-publish it. just because it's on the net does not give google the right to cache it indefinitely. it is not MY legal responsibility to make sure that I proactively do robots.txt or whatever else the trick of the day is (x-noarchive) - that is the intellectual property equivalent of opt-out.

    if google wants to keep an index of web pages for people to search on, that's fine. heck. even if it keeps the full text internally, that's fine too, as long as it gives people reasonable 'fair use' snippets. but if it caches stuff that an author has removed from the web or that an author has written, say, in order to expose people to a nearby advertisement which google's cache doesn't catch, then google shouldb be guilty of copyright violation. automated or not (ie, the 'napster' excuse doesn't wash here, either)

  13. an armIE of felonious billyonerror softwar.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    gangsters, appear unable to asphyxiate a handful of selfless hobbyists. not that they're (the gangsters) not trying.

    lookout bullow.

    pay no heed (or anything else) to va lairIE's pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise.

  14. MOOKORE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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