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Google Plugs Hole That Lets You Remove Any Website

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-we-uhh-meant-to-do-that dept.

blowdart writes "Google today disabled their webmaster tools after it was discovered that anyone could use the tool to remove any site from the google index. The exploit was pretty simple, all anyone had to do was to have a google webmasters tool account and edit a query string parameter on a valid removal to point to a domain they didn't own!"

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  1. I really wish... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this hole was open long enough for someone to remove Expert Exchange & all the other BS...

    1. Re:I really wish... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      What!?!? Would you rather your sex change be done by an amateur?

    2. Re:I really wish... by RedACE7500 · · Score: 5, Informative

      1. Log in to your Google Account
      2. Search for Experts Exchange
      3. Click on the result for Experts Exchange
      4. Press Back on your browser
      5. Click "Block all www.experts-exchange.com results"

    3. Re:I really wish... by RedACE7500 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Alternatively, manually block sites from your results here: http://www.google.com/reviews/t

  2. Re:Bobby tables by Shikaku · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://bobby-tables.com/ Obligatory response.

  3. Interesting applications possible... by CCarrot · · Score: 3, Funny

    What if someone used this exploit to remove Google.com? Then my parents couldn't enter 'google' in the white box (Google homepage) to get to 'the internet'!

    Agh. I think my head exploded.

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