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Googling Your Way Into Hacking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-be-stupid-here-people dept.

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. Yeah... by tds67 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...as if anyone on Slashdot uses Google...sheesh.

  2. Hackers use google by evilmonkey_666 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And google are aware of this, why else would they create this Hacker Version?

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  3. And see the caption by TuringTest · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content."

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    Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.