Labour MP gives me, Google and the world her password
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.
Ooooo, “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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