Hackers Find Use for Google Code Search

The company’s new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information and even proprietary code that shouldn’t have been posted to the Internet, security experts said Friday.

Could this have been avoided? Filters could be in place but there’s always ways around them. int sarcasm() { cout << "So, if you want to swipe code for a keygen and call it your own, now you know where to go." return 0; }