Comments on: Ever consider Google as your Big Brother?? http://www.adwords-articles.com/blog/general-conversation/ever-consider-google-as-your-big-brother/ Google AdWords, search engine marketing, small business management and other topics. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:58:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Maurice Carpenter http://www.adwords-articles.com/blog/general-conversation/ever-consider-google-as-your-big-brother/#comment-5 Maurice Carpenter Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:57:31 +0000 http://www.adwords-articles.com/blog/general-conversation/ever-consider-google-as-your-big-brother/#comment-5 It seems that Google could actually obtain more information about yourself than you know. Google has become a very powerful entity in the last few years. I purchased a book called "Google Hacking" by Johnny Long, which details how vulnerabilities and confidential information can be found through Google. In fact, google hacking is often used during footprinting and enumeration - the initial steps of computer hacking. There is a plethora of information that can be obtain by google hacking. Just put in the right commands, for example, intext:passwords.doc and who knows. You may somehow pick up an unencrypted password from a word document. The book shows you how to obtain buddylist of people on AIM and yahoo messenger just from google hacking. There is no telling how much information you could obtain from google hacking. It seems that Google could actually obtain more information about yourself than you know. Google has become a very powerful entity in the last few years. I purchased a book called “Google Hacking” by Johnny Long, which details how vulnerabilities and confidential information can be found through Google.

In fact, google hacking is often used during footprinting and enumeration - the initial steps of computer hacking. There is a plethora of information that can be obtain by google hacking. Just put in the right commands, for example, intext:passwords.doc and who knows. You may somehow pick up an unencrypted password from a word document.

The book shows you how to obtain buddylist of people on AIM and yahoo messenger just from google hacking. There is no telling how much information you could obtain from google hacking.

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