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Google Antiphishing Site Exposed Private User Data
Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Google has removed a few user names and passwords posted inadvertently to a phishing blacklist it compiles and makes publicly available on the Web. This information was submitted to Google by Firefox users with the browser's internal antiphishing toolbar. This feature, developed in cooperation with Google, enables users to report potential phishing sites to Google's blacklist database. Google has reportedly implemented a new mechanism detecting login data in submitted URLs to prevent sensitive information from getting posted to the list." The article notes that news of this minor lapse may obscure the ongoing problem of sensitive data exposed on the Web and findable via Google and other search services.
Putting it on a site like slashdot will help educate people who weren't already aware.
It's a lost cause. Those who have some sense already know that GOOG is one of the greatest fuck-ups, technologically worse than AOL and MSN combined.
The fanbois, however, can't be turned back into rational human beings; they'll continue to drool over every shiny new GOOG-Turd-beta while wanking off to a picture of Steve Jobs.
The Great Google, with its thousands of very highly educated people accidentally releasing private information? Tell me that it just isn't so. What happened to "Do No Evil"? And are those highly educated people that can run and pass The Great Google Hiring Gauntlet no so smart after all?? Tell me that it just isn't so... :-p