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- cuposmuck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+57why bother with code search... u dont have to look hard at all to find moron admins...
http://www.google.com/search?q=ext%3Apwd+inurl%3A%28service+%7C+authors+%7C+administrators+%7C+users%29+%22%23+-FrontPage-%22
yes that is a list of admin user names and passwords...
if your web site is on this list... then your admin is that dumb... and needs to be fired now... - shoover, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19This is like saying 'encyclopedias help terrorists'. Since the discovery of fire, there has always been a downside to making information more available to the masses, but by now I hope we can get past this xenophobic concept and realize that better ways of distributing information is a benefit to society.
This title is terribly misleading and shortsighted. Marking as inaccurate. - noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19cmon? any computer?
totally inaccurate.
plus, google has always been able to help with that. you can look up viruses and trojans and all kinds of hacking tools. who cares if you can find a bacdoor into someone's wordpress blog? - ollj, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15WAY Time to hack those evil cooperate monopolistic OPENSOURCE programs.
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16And so it begins.
- ollj, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13I just changed a frontpage into goatse
- Cablito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Lame.
Thats like saying linux is unsafe because you can see all the source code. - stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The link worked fine for me man.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Many of these so called "googledorks" can be found neatly categorized here:
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews - f0ad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Google bash much?
This isn't something that only google does.
Krugle has been around with their code search longer at it has code for much of the same projects where similar searches can be performed.
Also, all of the projects that google indexes are open source projects. You could have downloaded the code and searched through it too, without google.
Code searching isn't new especially for malicious purposes - tehmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://digg.com/hardware/Hammers_can_be_used_to_bludgeon_people_to_death
this whole 'google source code helps you to hack' story needs to die. every day it reaches the front page in some form. - cakestick, on 10/12/2007, -10/+12@dynex: wtf?
- cmiller1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=backdoor%20password
- tehmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1come on, how does this enable "millions of kids messing with people's pages"? FUD.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If it is not listed in Google, it does not exists, right?
The code was already viewed publicly, doh! - Bicx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You know, the fact that source code can now be viewed publicly should prod developers into developing more secure and stable code. In a way, this is similar to everyone being able to see the level of cleanliness of your undergarments.
- cuposmuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2opp i just noticed digg has busted the link... copy and paste will the link and cut the leading digg stuff...
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Digg sometimes does that, reloading the page fixes it.
- Kickersny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3More classics:
http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aadmin%3Dfalse - washcapsfan37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Title is totally inaccurate. Google Code Search *might* aide would-be hackers in finding newly discovered (I'd hope!) programming bugs in open source code. But you'd also have to know what programs a given machine is running and what version -- something any sysadmin worth his salt would not reveal.
- threeandout, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3funny, one is the Comp Sci department at University of Alabama
- plush, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lame, this is old news, and greatly exaggerated
- hpolloni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cause the internets is a series of tubes
- scottelloco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2FUD
- DavisTheDigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1stop biasing ur titles. nobody cares what u say
- MYarms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Google reiterated on Thursday that the tool is intended to help programmers to find coding examples and obscure function definitions, not parse for flaws."
ummm why did they release it to the public then? granted not everybody can read or even comprehend code but now you're gonna have millions of kids messing with people's pages. perhaps it will force programmers to stop being so lethargic with their coding. - jas168, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would infact argue that this helps security. A major problem with software is that coders don't realize holes in their code, but being open source allows others who know about those minor holes (which can cause great consequence) to fix them or suggest a fix.
I don't know, most people I don't think would be interested in attacking small open source projects. This if anything should make people more aware of the state of our programs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=wp-config.php&btnG=Search
- DaPimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha Google ROCKS!!!!!
- tehmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and?
- The_Lance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I use linux and I'm afraid to dual boot windows...
- ServerMonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What?! Easy access to information helps you learn things?! Alert the media!
- TheBigGuycouk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It also allows people to search all open source projects to patch them. That's why open source works so well.
- klawz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1actually this and a lot can be seen on the Google Hack Database, I first saw on johnny.ihackstuff.com (which is being hit hard now) - but deserves credit.
- austindkelly, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4bow down: damn dude ur like the google guru.
- rationalicthus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1How'd he do that with the blocks? Is there a way to stop it? The last thing I want to see on DIGG is ascii-art spam or something like it.
- scrimaxinc, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2didnt you see the other story on digg like an hour ago to make those blocks? newb....
- TheN0id, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2ROFL
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