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Geek Culture / More Google backdoors (fun)

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Jeku
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Posted: 12th Apr 2004 00:57 Edited at: 12th Apr 2004 01:03
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"Index of" "Name Last modified Size Description" "xxxxxxxxx"

Type that into Google, replacing the x's with something interesting, and you'll be able to browse index's of sites where the webmaster was too dumb to lock them down. People have found entire books (Harry Potter, Michael Crichton, etc.) and other interesting things. Myself, I accidentally stubmled across hundreds of SNES ROMs. I didn't take them, but if I wanted to, it was all open.

There are other Google "hacks" out there that are really cool. Some people have found Excel spreadsheets with bank account information! Webmasters could learn a thing or two about how to implement robots.txt properly!

Post some others if you find them

EDIT: The Register has an interesting article about "googledorking": http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/10/the_perils_of_googling/

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Killswitch
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Posted: 12th Apr 2004 01:28
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Thats pretty damn amzing!

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Newbie Brogo
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Posted: 12th Apr 2004 03:28
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wow, pretty cool.. heh

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Lance Lumpy
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Posted: 17th Apr 2004 18:17
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wow, does anyone know any more? email them to me at dumpymole@hotmail.com
thanks!

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David T
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Posted: 17th Apr 2004 20:08
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Index+of%22+admin

How fun. Almost as fun as searching for "cv.doc" (try advanced search for specific file types)

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 17th Apr 2004 20:28
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erk
i dont think ill ever submit a website to google again

http://www.tinnedhead.tk under re-construction.
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Powersoft
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Posted: 17th Apr 2004 22:23
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lol

Just to add to the confusion.
Look at my avatar
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Emperor Baal
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Posted: 17th Apr 2004 22:52
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And the best thing is:

When the sites are found, they are cached. So you can always get them for free (webmasters cant delete the cached items)

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Amd 2800+ 1024mb pc3200 A7N8X - Deluxe Ati Radeon 9800PRO 256mb
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Peter H
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Posted: 18th Apr 2004 03:32
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LOL! i tyoed in
Quote: ""Index of" "Name Last modified Size Description" "DarkBasic""
and got this thread!!!


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UnderLord
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Posted: 18th Apr 2004 18:53 Edited at: 18th Apr 2004 19:02
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do index of users

[edit]

index of porn also works for parent directory of some porn sites heh.

The search continues.

Current project - A space game
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David T
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Posted: 18th Apr 2004 19:25
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I managed to find the MySQL database details for a site.

NOTE I only found the file, didn't not maliciously attempt to alter their database data.

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Ian T
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Posted: 19th Apr 2004 20:25
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Google also has some awesome power behind it. A while back it changed its logo, as it does, to a fractal design... you click it on, it runs google image search on a certain type of fractal. It put several sites down because of the hundreds of thousands of hits it made to those sites it turned up. That's pretty scary, huh? No grounds for lawsuit or anything either. If they decide they don't like you, they just change their logo to represent your site, and search for it on a click, and you're gone!

Not that they would. Google is cool .

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David T
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Posted: 20th Apr 2004 15:16
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That's a bit of an old one o_0

There a link to it when you search a URL, I think.

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