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Labour MP gives me, Google and the world her password

Posted by deepquest on August 24, 2009 – 1:00 am

It’s funny what you discover sometimes when you’re doing the daily trawl of things and looking for something to blog. Today was one of those days. I was scanning through the Register of Members’ Interests and saw that Gisela Stuart MP had been paid for an article in the German weekly newspaper, Die Zeit.

I was curious what the article might be about, so off I went to Google. Slight problem though, I accidentally hit return on the keyboard before typing in the word “Zeit” and ending up searching for “Gisella Stuart Die” (unfortunate I know) and spotted a strange response at the top of the search.

Google LinkOoooo, “what’s that?” I thought? Something has gone wrong there and Google has code instead of content and it looks like code for what to do when a connection statement to a database fails (hence the “die”).

So I followed the link and ‘lo, it came to pass! I had in my possession the username and password for Gisela Stuart’s database and probably her website CMS too – worse still it was also in Google’s cache.

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