23 April 2007

not-so-secret passwords

Google enabled a "search public events" feature in their Calendar. (Full disclosure: I used the calendar when I was doing some planning, before I switched to the Backpack deal from 37signals.)

A special bonus of the new feature is that people haven't been paying attention to their calendar settings, and/or they weren't expecting google to make their calendar searchable. So they put password and user information in calendars that are now easy for the public to see. Oops.

You can read more about it over on another blog.

If you want to see it for yourself, log into google calendar, type "user password" in the search field, and click "Search Public Events".

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