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Pay no attention to the files behind the curtain.

A couple years ago the net was titilated for a few days by the fact that some poor slob had stored some naughty pics of himself that his girlfriend had taken, in one of the folders of his webserver. He apparently figured that since he didn't publish the link to this folder it would be safe. It wasn't.

Some search engine, maybe it was Google, found the files, and they became the "wait till you see this" buzz of the week. Embarrassing. Foolish.

Google is looking. Nothing stored in the public html folders of your website are secret. The Register has details:

Google is in many ways most dangerous website on the Internet for thousands of individuals and organisations, writes SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman . Most computers users still have no idea that they may be revealing far more to the world than they would want.

Posted by jackhodgson at March 10, 2004 10:29 PM