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Is Google Exposing You to Hack Attacks?
Yahoo News ^
| 08/02/2005
| Robert McMillan
Posted on 08/02/2005 12:41:34 PM PDT by Prime Choice
Somewhere out on the Internet, an Electric Bong may be in danger. The threat: a well-crafted Google query that could allow a hacker to use Google's massive database as a resource for intrusion.
"Electric Bong" was one of a number of household devices that security researcher Johnny Long came across when he found an unprotected Web interface to someone's household electrical network. To the right of each item were two control buttons, one labelled "on," the other, "off."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: fud; google; hacking; hype
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My take: this is just nonsensical Fear, Uncertainly and Doubt (FUD) mongering.
The pages are public. Google's cached them. BFD. If there wasn't Google caching, an attacker could use any number of overseas anonymous web proxies to survey an intented victim network. Big deal.
To: Prime Choice
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:44:28 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: Prime Choice
It came from Yahoo news. Could it be an attempt to get people to switch from Google to Yahoo?
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:45:34 PM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Prime Choice
If I had Internet control over a random electric bong somewhere I would be having a lot of fun with it.
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:45:42 PM PDT
by
sharktrager
(My life is like a box of chocolates, but someone took all the good ones.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:46:34 PM PDT
by
day10
(Rules cannot substitute for character.)
To: R. Scott
It came from Yahoo news. Could it be an attempt to get people to switch from Google to Yahoo? You read my mind. Stop it.
;o)
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:46:49 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
To: R. Scott
Yahoo: GOOGLE SUX!
GOOGLE: Yahoo sux!
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:46:57 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
To: BenLurkin
An electric bong? None for me, thanks. I'm driving.
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:47:30 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:48:03 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: BenLurkin
Where?
To: Prime Choice
set state Electric Bong: off
"Hey man! What's happenin'? Who shut off my bong?"
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:52:00 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
To: BenLurkin
"
An electric bong?"
Yeah ... what's up with that? You suppose you will get an overdose if there is an electrical surge?
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posted on
08/02/2005 12:56:41 PM PDT
by
G.Mason
To: G.Mason
An electric bong?
I've heard of a nitrous powered bong.
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posted on
08/02/2005 1:08:08 PM PDT
by
FreeInWV
To: Prime Choice
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posted on
08/02/2005 1:22:06 PM PDT
by
t_skoz
("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
To: R. Scott
Google is a great search engine. It's also extremely far-left. Case in point: search for "failure." See what comes up first (hat tip to LGF).
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posted on
08/02/2005 1:23:47 PM PDT
by
Cyclopean Squid
(History is a narrator that tends to extemporize.)
To: R. Scott
Also see what comes up second. I guess they may be balanced to a certain degree after all.
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posted on
08/02/2005 1:26:22 PM PDT
by
Cyclopean Squid
(History is a narrator that tends to extemporize.)
To: Prime Choice
Is Google Exposing You to Hack Attacks?No, but some 7' guy in a Miami Heat jersey keeps dunking over me....
To: Cyclopean Squid
That's not bias that's tagging. You can make your site go higher up in search engine results by burying words in the hidden text of the page (or even in the visible text, or even in the HREF description of things that link to the page). There was a concerted effort by DU during the election to associate the words "failure" and "miserable" to President Bush through these techniques. A few FReepers did a counter run to beat on Michael Moore. Search engines can be manipulated if you're willing to put the work into it porn sites have been doing it since before Google, that's what this is an exampe of.
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posted on
08/02/2005 1:31:37 PM PDT
by
discostu
(When someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back)
To: Prime Choice
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posted on
08/02/2005 1:32:06 PM PDT
by
KoRn
To: pissant; Dashing Dasher
I have just shut your your electric vibrating panties.
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posted on
08/02/2005 1:33:49 PM PDT
by
Feiny
(Why won't liberals try practicing random acts of intelligence and senseless acts of self-control?)
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