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Heh, this reminds of a story many years ago at Google, where we got angry messages from some guy complaining that Google kept deleting all the photos from his o
by vijayp 13y ago
Heh, this reminds of a story many years ago at Google, where we got angry messages from some guy complaining that Google kept deleting all the photos from his online album.
We eventually figured out he his online album had an unprotected "delete this photo" endpoint via a GET, and no robots restriction! We eventually had to fix the crawler to detect things like this...
- userbinator 13y agoI bet Google gets tons of these: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Spider_of_Doom.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Spider_of_Doom.aspx
- nraynaud 13y agoI love this idea that you have to be exceptionally smart not to do the best job, but to do a normal job while surrounded by mediocrity.