Re: Googlebot Destroys Morons Website

[James Kehl <shykta () dione ids pl>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote:

> Josh was called in to investigate and noticed that one particularly
> troublesome external IP had gone in and deleted *all* of the content
> on the system. The IP didn't belong to some overseas hacker bent on
> destroying helpful government information. It resolved to
> googlebot.com, Google's very own web crawling spider. Whoops.

Ah, the joys of client-side authentication...

What are the odds they fixed this with robots.txt? :P

...mandatory crossreference: "Rise of the Robots", by lcamtuf:
http://www.phrack.org/phrack/57/p57-0x0a

James
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