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Online Search Engines Lift Cover Of Privacy

Posted by timothy on from the bathwater-around-the-baby dept.

Rican writes "MSNBC has an interesting article about how 'Googledorks' are using the powerful search engine to do searches across the web for sensitive and/or private information. Some of this information includes 'Medical records, bank account numbers, students' grades, and the docking locations of 804 U.S. Navy ships, submarines and destroyers.'"

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  1. I've heard of "cow orkers"... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    ...but what the heck are "googled orks"?

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  2. Cue Dr. Evil by Clinoti · · Score: 5, Funny

    The most basic way to keep Google from reaching information in a "Web server", security experts said, is to set up a "digital gatekeeper in the form of an instruction sheet for the search-engine's crawler. That file, which is called "fembots.txt"

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