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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6powercow, you and the rest of them are dolts.. this guy attended a conference where someone else had this demostrated on a screen and he took pictures and wrote about it.. i dont think he had access to the machines to make a proper screenshot..the guy who did the demo pictured last.. not the bloggers picture... so i say taking pictures is better than just reading his blog about it without picts.. and all of you especially powercow are idiots.
- memphfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sigh. They are photos taken of a presentation, not screen shots. That's a screen that they are being projected too. You are all very observant, and slow to point out the shortcomings of others
- TheFlyingMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Isnt that kind of irresponsible to post someone's SS number?
- aMillionAndNine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think they actually have programs now that can take screenshots.
It was interesting though. - JohnTheLutheran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great story, thoroughly deserves a digg.
*However*, UK users might want to exercise a degree of caution in following some of these suggestions. Accessing material in this way will almost certainly breach the Computer Misuse Act 1992, even if done for innocent/"white hat" reasons.
Computer Misuse Act, s.1:
A person is guilty of an offence if—
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
If you want to argue that there is implicit authorisation to access information that is on the web without password protection, then be my guest. I'm sure the magistrates will find your arguments fascinating... - Teridon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Linksys configuration pages:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+screen+contains+all+of+the+router%27s+basic+setup+functions%22+%22host+name%3A%22 - rodball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Following a link in the comments section, we find:
---
Hi.
Normally, my site is here, but we're getting pounded with traffic so the site has curled up into the fetal position until things cool down.
Please check back later!
Thanks,
j0hnny - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you didn't want it found, WHY DID YOU PUT IT ON THE WEB???
Sheesh, some people have more money than they have sense. Yay Google, helping us find things. - thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.onlamp.com/security/2004/10/07/examples/signatures.txt
- krbjljb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I double checked the whitehouse.gov/robots.txt and it appears they've added "robots.txt" to the list to Disallow. Funny.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1from the whitehouse.gov robot.txt: Disallow: /katrina/text
how quaint - Sarsura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another priceless thing is that the whitehouse robots.txt file contains the following:
disallow: /911/911day/iraq
disallow: /911/heroes/iraq - Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol i just did my own search and found random people's social security numbers.
good thing im no criminal, hehe - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2haha, looks like screenPHOTOS.. someone doesnt know how to take screenshots
(how embarassing) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not really new, but I love reading that ***** so DUGG
- werddrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The most fun with google hacking is finding webcams... Sometimes even ones you can control.
- cielerella, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mwahahahaha!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Just so you momo's know...
The screenshots were not 'screenshots'. The were pictures taken at a conference, of the screen with projected images on it.
FYI. Now you can all stop wasting post space with those comments. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"If you didn't want it found, WHY DID YOU PUT IT ON THE WEB???"
The problem is that people frequently
(1) don't realize how powerful google is, and assume that no one will ever try to access their site (comperable to leaving your front door unlocked and hoping no one will ever try to open it)
(2) don't realize they're putting their things on the net to begin with (e.g. netgear config login page) - sporkwitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Same, it's common knowledge, but you gotta love it. Nothing pleases me more than waking up in the morning and just googling up some unencrypted, plain-text password files. But then again, I can always just go to rainbowcrack if I really need in.....
- etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nah - that's just stuff they don't want Google to see. Most of that stuff a normal user can get to (ie. is supposed to be able to get to). What would be bad is if they let you list those folders, which they don't.
- altjeringa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing new but there are so many people out there that don't even get basic web security... had to dig it for their sake.
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google is TOO good... which is diggable..
GO GOOG! - NeuralOverload, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice screenshots, and omg whitehouse.gov's robots.txt is the longest ive ever seen...
- chimona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0those ssn's looked encoded or something, does anybody's ssn start with zero?
- jessestay, on 01/21/2009, -0/+0Ha! Love the whitehouse.gov thing - hopefully those aren't files and directories that jeapordize National Security.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i agree with geminitojanus... Or at least if i don't want public access on your web page, you put password. But probably google have some reasons to do things like that.
- potifer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ah, creepy Google.
- sam54m, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1digg for the screenshots
- Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hahaha awesome, :P
- eblah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"and more social security numbers, these were used by a university to identify their students. It's illegal to use social security numbers for that, but this school apparently didn't care."
Illegal? My college uses SSN as my username ... they're supposedly changing it soon ... always hated using my social for something like that. Hmm ... - Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"digg-effect on Google? I've been getting slow responses recently."
I really hope that was sacracstic. - ZMoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why is 360pics a dir in whitehouse.gov?
- kakapu4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The screen shots from the article showed a directory on www.whitehouse.gov that doesn't exist anymore. There's no /360pics/iraq in the list now... I wanted to see those. :(
www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt - mdweaver7485, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Funny thing is someone posted a link to Johny Hack Stuff last night in the google data mining stories. Spent three hours just goolging things last night umm wow very scary stuff and very scary that I have that little of a life.
@werddrew - yeah that is kinda fun. whats the legality on that when its something you can find on google? anyone know. I was expecting quite a few public ones, and most were like ones for marinas and parks and aqauriums but there were some weird ass cams like, monitoring warehouses and stores.
Whats the legal matter on that? Keeping in mind it is on Google and is publicly accessible, no passwords or security compromises required. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/barney/photoessay/text/
"Barney Bush plays on the White House lawn with his red ball. " - eblah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh, and the pictures look like they were taken from a presentation, hence read the article: "But as McAfee's senior vice president for Risk Management George Kurtz demonstrated today at RSA conference" since he demonstrated, it's PROBABLY pictures from a big screen projection. Notice the last image too ....
- D43PAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know thise might be old news to you ... or maybe I'm doing it wrong. But when I type "whitehouse.gov" into google and hit search there are absolutely NO results. Weiird.
- m4ff3w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.google.com/search?hs=qpq&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=filetype%3Apdf+The+Google+Hacker%E2%80%99s+Guide&btnG=Search
- miskaone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is incredible, someone better call the Chinese consulate.
- Squidsta711, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pooned
- Jumboshrmp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"OMG! WTF! I JUST HAX0r3D and PWN3D teh noobs!"
jeeze... since when is digg full of 1337 people? - Dabellah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does anyone else see this as scary? I mean, if WE as CIVILIANS using google can view this stuff through certain methods, what do you think Google has stored in their own databases? The possibilities are limited only to what the world has networked within itself...
- unitedstatians, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Complaint Against Internet Archive robots.txt
http://www.ip-wars.net/displaystory/2005/7/12/185442/034 - irate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"""disallow: /911/911day/iraq
disallow: /911/heroes/iraq""'
Classic Bush administration! lol - ThePDW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.google.com/search?q=%22not+for+distribution%22+confidential+filetype:doc&hl=en&lr=&start=20&sa=N
Interesting if you scroll down to the bottom result there is a document from some bigshot politician in liberia. - lvlolvlo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Give credit where it's due you bastards!
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ - Markyologist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Chimono - Yes, some people's SSNs do start with zero. If you got your SSN on the east coast, there's a good possibility it starts with a zero.
- AnimeRules15421, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice screenshots. (lol)
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"haha, looks like screenPHOTOS.. someone doesnt know how to take screenshots
(how embarassing)"
tell me about it, there are only ten thousand different screen capture programs out there. My favorite is purrint. How sophisticated can this person really be if he can't take a screenshot? -
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