Re: [projectvrm] To me this is shocking ...

[Jonathan Peterson < >]

Not sure what component of search digity you got the panicked email about since the attached image was stripped, but it doesn't look at your local machine.  It's a GUI that automates the types of google searches that are often used by hackers to help penetrate sites.  


There is NOTHING that it does that isn't available through plain old google if you know how to use advanced settings.  What is shocking is how often people leave their information lying around online.  All those social "sharing" site features that people turn on (or that are on by default), all that access granted to facebook apps, etc?  Much of it is exposed (as it must be to allow sharing) through web services that google happily digests.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Brian Behlendorf < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Took a look at this - it's a desktop app, MS Windows only I think, so I couldn't give it a try.  Could it be it's looking through your browser cache on the same local box, rather than anything public?  Or if you're "pointing it at Google", through your gmail archives, etc?  It would be a major breach if people's Amazon purchase history was inadvertantly public.

Brian

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Nathan Schor wrote:

Has anyone seen this?

NotInMyBackyard Tool Shows Who's Eyeing Your Data Online
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-google-hacking-tool-for-consumers-2012-8#ixzz22vcf98JC

Maybe I’ve been naïve but I was astounded, not at what this free software does, but more by how easily it does it. I typed in just my name and had it look
only at Google (only one of multiple databases it’s capable of searching) and it showed in seconds my address, just about every web site I visited recently,
including the books I recently purchased on Amazon, the Vimeo I watched and so on. See below for a ton of info one wouldn’t get from a conventional Google
search. BTW Each of those links on the far right is active and takes you to the page where they found the info.

 

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