[3546] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Alta Vista may or may not harvest unadvertised documents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Leeming)
Fri Nov 15 06:24:07 1996
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: Geoffrey Leeming <geoffrey@indiciis.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:05:44 +0100
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
I think everyone's missing the point slightly. You have world-readable
directories on your web server. If you have information that you don't want
people to get at, either:
* Don't put it on the web server
or
* Make sure no-one without the right permissions can read it.
If your data is there, unless you've done one of the above someone *will*
find a way to read it if they want to.
Sorry for being so simplistic :-)
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