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Hackers Find Use for Google Code Search

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-why-you-don't-comment-code dept.

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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  1. Re:OMG!!! by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, and those hot young pages were leading Foley on.

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