[bigcat32]

The Honerable Dick Boner?

[MineralMan]

"Honorable Richard D. Boner"

Oh, no, they didn't. Surely not! Cruel, cruel parents.

[MineralMan]

More:

In response to Judge Boner's injunction, Google V.P. for Community relations, Michael Hunt, said, "Neener, neener, neener.

[smith288]

THeir system was secure. That isnt Googles fault.

Google spiders (any searche ngines spider really) is nothing more than a web browser that plucks links and follows it. If it hits a brick wall like a username and password, it wont get the document but it appears the system the school has doesnt block squat. I think the school should be sued by the parents if anything.

[fso301]

Honorable Richard D. Boner

I had a professor named Richard Head.

[bahblahbah]

It's not googles fault at all. They need to learn what robots.txt.

Here's freerepublics.

http://www.freerepublic.com/robots.txt

[American_Centurion]

If Google's spider can effectively breach password protected web sites I would love to have a copy of that.

But it can't. Whatever linked to the page with the sensitive info is how google got there. If it was truly a login/password protected link, google's spider couldn't read it. I would suspect the school is either lying or someone else has posted a link to that page with login and password in the link URL. If the latter is the case, then the school is still wrong for having it's website poorly configured.

Has to be the school's fault, but don't expect them to take the blame, they NEVER do.

[pillut48]

Catawba County Schools Superintendent Tim Markley discusses his frustrations with Google on Friday. The names and social security numbers of 620 students from Catawba County Schools are posted on the Internet search engine. ROBERT C. REED (RECORD PHOTOGRAPHER) -------------------------------------- If ever there was a "Caption this pic"...this guys is NOT happy with Google, no, not one little bit. "I'd like to get the guy in charge of Google and wrap my hands around his scrawny little neck and...!!" :-)

[Redcloak]

Quoth the IT weenie Ms. Ray...

“One of the students on the list had a presence on the Web,”... “In Google’s effort to get information on her, one of its spiders latched onto her name in this document. We were not aware that password-protected sites are set up like that. To our knowledge, Google could only cache unsecure information that did not require a password or username.”

It sounds like Ms. Ray is unaware of the fact that a null password isn't really a password at all. St00pid n00b.

[af_vet_rr]

School Finds Out It's Not Google's Fault

More controversy was added to the situation after some sources reported that Google spiders had "hacked" the school system's server to index the information. But both the school's chief technology officer and Google (and a few others with the skinny on how this works) say that Google crawlers cannot bypass password protection to access and cache content.

In short, it's most likely the school's error and if lawsuits ensue from the parents of affected students, Catawba County Schools Superintendent Tim Markley will likely be making the same face he's making in this photo