Have faith in the Law of Unintended Consequences - Reuters Blogs

Hmmm 

Put the power to quickly search billions of lines of code in the public’s hands and you can learn things, including some things maybe you didn’t want to know.

• Predius, who describes himself as a 16-year-old Peruvian Linux geek, has charted the frequency with which programmers embed unprintable swear words in commentary lines embedded within their computer code.
• InfoWorld has a round-up of security vulnerabilities that Google Code Search brings to light. One hacker site highlights “Googledorks,” defined as “an inept or foolish person as revealed by Google.”
• There’s also as many as 10 million e-mail addresses of software coders for spam distributors to harvest, according a discussion list on Digg.com.

Read the Reuters story on Google Code Search.

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