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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Hacker, not cracker?

[Phantasmo]

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.