Comments on: How To Reveal Password Files With Google Search

By: nositeyescan

nositeyescan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:23:55 +0000

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By: studentnoyah

studentnoyah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:20:53 +0000

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By: househousest

househousest — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:06:22 +0000

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By: microsoftuni

microsoftuni — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:19:20 +0000

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By: lettercanada

lettercanada — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:13:14 +0000

then did about to it one night, for the leaves a scientist.

By: danny

danny — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:57:50 +0000

And stop using gmail, of course!!!!

By: Grant Alan Friedline

Grant Alan Friedline — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:38:48 +0000

Of course Google can find password files if they are exposed in the web folder. Google spiders your whole website if it can. Same as other search engines. It is important to note that the search does not even have to be specifically for a password files. Exploited file could just show up in a search for your website because Google has indexed them. Other important files can be found accidentally too (this happens when you are a new web programmer, you google search your own website, and you wonder how the heck did Google find that hahahaa). Use htaccess inside file directories to limit access (Apache Web Server).

By: fedmich

fedmich — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:19:57 +0000

Scary, I think we should be very careful pm the files that we put on our servers.

Also, there’s even a cache of the pages on Google and other websites. So even if you remove the files upon realizing this problems, it still might be late…

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:17:02 +0000

Scary to think people leave this kind of stuff freely available on the web and not only them but big companies (or more likely governments) too.

@viettut Google has stated they want to Inex everything, that appears to be exactly what they are doing, they let the ‘don’t be evil’ thing slide though.

By: viettut

viettut — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:13:07 +0000

Google is pretty much gathering all the information it gets it hands on. Sometimes I get the feeling that the Skynet system in the Terminator is Science Fiction anymore

By: hongkiat

hongkiat — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:54:02 +0000

Sumesh: Filtered myself out from top commentors name.

By: Carbono

Carbono — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:59:35 +0000

WOW… i’m afraid. :)

By: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:47:27 +0000

Google is a scary monster too.

By: Louise

Louise — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:27:04 +0000

It’s pretty scary to think that with a simple Google search something as important as passwords could be made public.

That’s why I use a password manager: http://tinyurl.com/38jxny
Louise

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:02:58 +0000

Great – one more publicly exposed hackery. I wonder how much worse security can be.

PS: You’re the top one in Top commentators list. Don’t you think its odd? There’s a way to exclude users in the plugin.

By: Ashrufzz

Ashrufzz — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:28:06 +0000

That’s scary dude!!