Hacking Your Own Server with Google!

Posted by JD 04/27/2012 at 16:00

Here’s a guy who accidentally cause over $1000 in charges on his cloud server by telling a google service about it. Google decided to download the data – all of the data – every hour with hundreds of crawlers. Nice.

Be careful out there. Some google services and many generic web crawlers do not honor the robots.txt.