Re: Google's robots.txt handling

[Christoph Gruber <list () guru at>]

On 12.12.2012 at 00:23 "Lehman, Jim" <jim.lehman () interactivedata 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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