Online search engines lift cover of privacy

February 10, 2004 | Source: Washington Post

Cybersecurity experts say an increasing number of private or putatively secret documents are online in out-of-the-way corners of computers all over the globe, leaving the government, individuals, and companies vulnerable to security penetration by “Googledorks,” who troll the Internet for confidential information.

The article’s reference to a file that avoids search-engine indexing is erroneous. “robots.txt” is the correct file name. – Ed