I read an aricle in a magezine this afternoon (yes a real paper one ) about google hacks. Basically the hackers use google to find information about a site that they weren't suppose to. The article linked to this site: http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews

But I guess that there are a lot more things to be found if you use Google

Pfft! I've been doing that for ages. Google indexes many pages that you can't normally get to, and then they make a cache of them. Makes it very easy to get places you aren't supposed to go.

Yes, anyone using the Google Web Accelerator gets every webpage they view cached at the google servers, even password protected and private pages.

It's not *that* bad, but it's true that there's a lot of stuff accessible that perhaps should be kept away from tender souls. Like certain people's Winamp playlists.

Isn't it all the stupid "webmasters'" fault, though? Google's bot obeys robots.txt as well as the robots meta tag in HTML. If everything else fails, there's still .htaccess to keep bots out. People who let their 'secrets' be indexed or even cached are really asking for trouble.

Yep. It's up to the admins to keep a lid on their indexes, and change the default passwords that come with installs of Cold Fusion, Oracle, etc.

Then again, the poor things are probably too busy retrieving the manager's mail again after his nth PIM sync f***-up.

In the long run it is the 'stupid' webmasters fault. But there are so many things to know, and yet so little time to do it all in.

Trudat. Meanwhile, I looked at your site and got interested in Empire again. Thanks.

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