Online Search Engines Lift Cover Of Privacy

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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FLim Flam!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wham Bam!

Re:FLim Flam!

[Anonymous Coward]

Rama Lama Ding Dong!

fp

[Anonymous Coward]

Teh Goatse Man Says, "Width Does Matter!"
(in Soviet Russia, of course!)

Awesome!

[NetNinja]

Lets teach the terrorists new tricks!
NOT!

I've got a color TV

[Anonymous Coward]

so I can see, the Knicks play basketball.

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Re:Google can't always hack it

[Lifewish]

I'll have you know that many of our members have an active sex life. Or so I'm told. Whatever.

It's good fun though. Great way to meet people. And then shoot them in the head :)

Msn Messenger is dead

[Sophrosyne]

Anyone know what is going on with MSN messenger? It seems to be out for the count.
Check out MSN Messengers homepage...
Any ideas as to what's going on? a DOS attack? the reliability of Microsoft Server 2003?
Sorry I know it's off-topic but any info on this would be cool. :)

Why the 'secret' of Navy Ships

[Orcish_Rodent]

I can't help but ask why does it have to be a 'secret' where navy ships are docked and when they leave? The only purpose I can think of is/was during the cold war it helped assure mutial destruction. But now what is the major threat to the US that mandates that doesn't allow some sailors to tell their families when they will get home exactly or when (what day) they are leaving. So, what threat do we have to warrant this? Terrorists could and can easily find out where the ships are. Anyway these secret ports and launch dates are to protect where the vessiles are going not where they are.

So here is a noble idea why not get ride of this stupidity and waste of money on trying to keep this crap a secret and pay for our debts for the other 2 trillion dollars of military crap we have. Or even better get ride of most of our subs and really start to balance our budget, ask your self who does the US need to hide from with these things? what other nations ships do really have to sneek up on? what nation do we really need to have 10 ways to destroy?

And to those people who say we should liberate the world and expose them to our from of freedom I say, We (US) managed to free ourselves from the biggest empire in the world mostly by ourselves why can't they?

A strong military should not define a world policy

Re:Good Circle of Reasoning.

[Anonymous Coward]

Moderators: Please note that "twitter" is a known fanatical psycophant whose obnoxious offtopic rants are legend here on Slashdot. It doesn't matter what the topic is, he'll find a way to scrape in some pointless Microsoft bashing. While nobody expects us to love Microsoft in any way, his particularly tepid style of calling anyone he replies to "troll" or "liar" because he happens to disagree with whatever they're saying is well documented and should not be rewarded. If anything, twitter is the type of person that should not be part of the open source/free software community. He is an anathema to all that is good about free software.

I'm posting this so that you (the moderator) have some context to consider twitter and not mod him up whenever he posts his filler preformatted rants about installing Knoppix or whatever that unfortunately get him karma every single time and allow him to continue posting his trademark toxic crap (read on) day in and day out. You may consider this a troll - I consider it community service. And I ain't kidding.

If you're a /. subscriber, I invite you to look through some of his posting history. I guarantee that you'll be hard pressed to find someone that is more "out there" than twitter. You'll also probably notice he's got quite an AC following. Don't just read his posts, make sure you go through the replies.

For example, in this recent post twitter not only calls the OP a troll but attempts to "tell it like it is" while making some vague argument about "GNU". Yes, if you're confused, you're not alone. The reply (modded +4) proceeds to simply destroy his bogus argument. You will notice he did not reply. This is what some people call "drive-by advocacy". A sort of I'll just leave you with my thoughts here and move on to the next flamebait kind of deal. In fact, he almost never replies because he knows that his fanatical arguments simply do not hold up to any sort of discussion. It's not that he's chosen the wrong cause - he's just going at it in a completely wrong way.

More? Just read though this post and the subsequent replies. I guess this stands on its own.

More? Bad spelling in astounding conspiracy theories, more offtopic FUD and uninformed "I'm right, look at me" rants, promptly proven wrong. Worse even, twitter wants to be RMS, apparently (that first one is a winner). I mean, really. You think?

FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, offtopic FUD, and more FUD. This guy is like the Monty Python SPAM skit, but with FUD and more FUD instead of canned meat. Amazed

Re:Good Circle of Reasoning.

[Shurhaian]

I really, really wish more people were this thorough.

I, however, don't have any links to support my own statement. Grain of salt time.