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Err. Googleusercontent is owned by Google. It's used to host user content so that it's not under the Google domain and avoid XSS vulnerability.
by Johnie 10y ago
Err. Googleusercontent is owned by Google. It's used to host user content so that it's not under the Google domain and avoid XSS vulnerability.
- jamestanderson 10y agoFor the author: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/whois/results.aspx?domain=googleusercontent.com https://www.namecheap.com/domains/whois/results.aspx?domain=...
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThe issue about that is that the official Google-written page is also under googleusercontent, which it really shouldn't be. Nothing about the article indicates the author doesn't know googleusercontent.com is Google's domain.
- YCode 10y agoSecond line in the article is "Although we’re not actually talking about Google’s Bug Bounty program… instead we’re talking about what appears to be an attempt to exploit people that are searching for it." It also seems like he kind of rushed off to post the article without a response from Google "This issue was disclosed to Google, but seeing as it is in public search results I thought it best to publish this to make others aware of the issue. " Kind of ironic that the about page claims he runs "a software engineering consultancy providing leading edge software and security expertise"