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Google Hacking Against PrivacyPage 1Google Hacking Against PrivacyEmin Islam TatlUniversity of Mannheim Department of Computer Sciencetatli@th.informatik.unimannheim.de( on leave to the University of Weimar)Key words: Google hacking privacy privacy searchesSummary. Google facilitates our lives by finding any searched information withina singleclick time. On the other hand Google threatens our privacy by revealing ourpersonal data to others. In this paper we give examples of Google hacking againstuser privacy and discuss the countermeasures to protect our privacy from Google orin general from the search engines.1 MotivationGoogle is the most popular web search engine in internet. It indexes anyinformation from web servers thanks to its hardworking web crawlers. Butmany personal data that should be kept secret and confidential are indexedby Google too. This threatens our privacy. Personal data like name address phone numbers emails CVs chat logs forum and mailing list postings usernamepassword pairs for login sites private directories documentsimages online devices like web cameras without any access control secretkeys private keys encrypted messages etc. are all available to others viaGoogle. In addition to privacy risks there are many more other security risksthat can be revealed by Google. There exist an online database 3] whichcontains 1423 different Google hacking search queries by June 2007.This paper focuses on the advanced search queries that illustrate howGoogle reveals personal private data which are expected to stay private. Actually other search engines reveal such private data too. But Google hasbecome our target due to its huge index size. The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 summarizes the useful parameters for the advanced search inGoogle. In Section 3 examples of search queries against privacy are given.Section 4 explains possible security measures against Google privacy hacking.Finally Section 5 explains our future work plan.Page 22Emin Islam ...

Source: th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de

 

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