Is robot.txt a Hacking tool?

Discussion in 'Security' started by TheSyndicate, Jul 16, 2009.

  1. jtpratt

    jtpratt Well-Known Member

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    This isn't really an issue, and more importantly use the robots.txt to list areas of the site not to be indexed because you don't want hackers SEARCHING GOOGLE to find exploits in your site. Don't you know hackbots mine google searching for sites to infect based on what the googlebot indexed?
     
    jtpratt, Sep 9, 2009 IP