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Submission + - Google index site removal tool has gaping hole (jamesbreckenridge.co.uk)

Submitted by blowdart
blowdart writes: Google today disabled their webmaster tools after it was discovered that anyone could use the tool to remove any site from the google index.

The exploit was pretty simple, all anyone had to do was to have a google webmasters tool account and edit a query string parameter on a valid removal to point to a domain they didn't own/
The Courts

Submission + - Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook==Terrorist

Submitted by Anonymous Terrorist
Anonymous Terrorist writes: Back in the midsts of time, when I was a lad and gopher was the height of information retrieval I read The Anarchist's Cookbook in one huge text file. Now it appears the UK government considers possession of the book an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000 and is prosecuting a 17 year old boy, in part, for having a copy of the book.

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