full-disclosure - Re: Google's robots.txt handling

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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:18:59 +0100
From: Christoph Gruber <list@...u.at>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Google's robots.txt handling

On 12.12.2012 at 00:23 "Lehman, Jim" <jim.lehman@...eractivedata.com> wrote:

> It is possible to use white listing for robots.txt. Allow what you want google to index and deny everything else. That way google doesn't make you a goole dork target and someone browsing to your robots.txt file doesn't glean any sensitive files or folders. But this will not stop directory bruting to discover your publicly exposed sensitive data, that probably should not be exposed to the web in the first place. 

Maybe I misunderstood something, but do you really think that "sensitive" can be hidden in "secret" directories on publicly reachable web servers?
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