Jun 26 2006
Why is Google suddenly the bad guy lately?
This is the second or third instance I’ve heard recently of “Google shouldn’t have seen that!”. Officials in the Catawba County School district are blaming Google, saying the big G indexed files and information on over 600 students that they shouldn’t have accessed. The information in question was supposedly behind a page that needed a password to access. But if you know anything about search engines, you know that spiders, at least legitimate spiders, don’t do anything other than index and can’t access a page that has any security measures. Hmm, can you say “misconfiguration”? Oh, and there were social security numbers involved. Why is a school still using SS #’s to identify their students?
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