Hackers Find Use for Google Code Search

An anonymous reader wrote in to say that "Google has inadvertently given online attackers a new tool. The company's new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information and even proprietary code that shouldn't have been posted to the Internet, security experts said Friday. "

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Re:I use it to find linux vunerbilities

[isorox]

Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.

So if Linux gets user friendly, it will drop to a 1% market share? Sounds like a reason to keep it not being user friendly!