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Re: Search Archives! Help Full


  • Subject: Re: Search Archives! Help Full
  • From: Chuq von Rospach <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:57:01 -0800

On 11/1/01 9:33 AM, "Kevin Gogerty" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Thank You for the feed back. However... the site has been running for about
> 4 months now. I have had NO bots on the site... due to the fact that it's
> not listed on ANY search engines, or a "published" url..

Sorry, not good enough. Security by obscurity isn't acceptable. Remember, if
YOU leak, WE get blamed, and so you have to be at least as secure as we are.

> So I will take some steps within reason to make it more secure, for the
> paranoid folk. But to shut it down, it is a helpful tool that IS not
> available.

"within reason" means you have to meet our minimum standards, Kevin. That's
not your option. Please cooperate. But in the end, it's not up to you. It's
not your data to do waht you choose with.

> ps. we had this talk before. and had the thumbs up - nothing else has
> changed since then.

My first trivial search exposed email addresses. Either I didn't look
closely last time, or I'm getting better at searching. (hint: search for "a"
in the posted-by field. So with about 10 trivial searches, you can get every
accessible e-mail address in your archives).


--
Chuq Von Rospach, lists.apple.com Lead Administrator
email@hidden


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