August 06, 2004

Google Hack

Posted by nerdling | August 6, 2004 05:24 PM

This news is a few days old, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway: as reported via Stereogum, Google has added a number span search feature. On the surface, this seems like a helpful idea—that is, up until the point where you can search for a range of numbers that would appear on a credit card and receive all the information Google has cached for the numbers in the range, including the names, addresses and telephone numbers of some of the cardholders.

Danger, danger, online shoppers!

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