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Re: Using google against google.
From: Corey Gilmore <cfg () dln uvm edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 07:08:16 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Peter Parker wrote:
Hi, Good news for the spamers!! As most of us are aware that Google provides various options/operators for writing effective queries. One of the operator is the "site:" option, which restricts the search to the website specified with this tag. Just tried googling for some gmail accounts with site:gmail.google.com and the results were a list of urls with the title "Link Already Used". The area of concern is that all these pages are actually error pages with a valid gmail user accounts.... so with a small script its very easy for some one to glean a list of _valid_ gmail accounts. Do you have a gmail account? ....check if your name is already harvested ;-)
Before someone spends any time to start scouring gmail.google.com, all of the ~273 gmail accounts found with that method were posted as links to other web pages. Although, someone who uses a gmail invitation from a website might be the type of person who will buy H'y_d_roc_0_d_0`n_e or V~i_c_o`din. Google for a-9a480b2d7a-3e4cd52df5 and you get two results, one being the gmail "Link already used", the other being www.cocooland.com which has a handful of gmail invitation links. I'm still not sure about the wisdom of showing who used an invitation... _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://www.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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