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2006-08-18 Thread simonbun
Exactly... and on that note: http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To

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2006-08-18 Thread Max Penet
Some php projects had to cope with that. I can remember phpbb : http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-12-21 But many other projects suffered from this . > is there enough advantage to be had by > parsing the HTML response of a google search, that malware writers > would bother to write that,

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2006-08-18 Thread Jay Klehr
Seems to me that robots.txt is the first place I'd look if I was looking to cause some trouble. :) Jay Ian Clelland wrote: > I always > assumed that all they would do is connect over port 80, and try to > retrieve something like /admin/, or another platform-specific resource > over http, and

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2006-08-18 Thread James Bennett
On 8/18/06, Ian Clelland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm actually curious though -- is there enough advantage to be had by > parsing the HTML response of a google search, that malware writers > would bother to write that, rather than just trying IPs at random? Yup. The 'Santy' worm[1] (which

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2006-08-18 Thread Ian Holsman
On 18/08/2006, at 4:39 PM, Ian Clelland wrote: > > On 8/17/06, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> this is how various worms spread in the past. they did a google >> search for a specific 'feature' >> and then with a known vulnerability in hand, they would attack that >> site, put their

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2006-08-18 Thread Ian Clelland
On 8/17/06, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is how various worms spread in the past. they did a google > search for a specific 'feature' > and then with a known vulnerability in hand, they would attack that > site, put their worm on it, and repeat. Ian, Do you know of worms that

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2006-08-17 Thread Deryck Hodge
On 8/17/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right -- it doesn't really matter. This was just a small change > to hide the pages from bots, because there's really no value in Google > indexing the admin login screens. (Other than the coolness factor of > being able to do one of

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2006-08-17 Thread Ian Holsman
On 18/08/2006, at 12:56 PM, Deryck Hodge wrote: > > > I know I'm missing something obvious, but why is this a problem? It's > not like the default, well-documented admin location isn't /admin/ on > a Django site. I not trying to be a smart aleck or critical. I'm > really curious what I'm

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2006-08-17 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 8/17/06, Deryck Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know I'm missing something obvious, but why is this a problem? It's > not like the default, well-documented admin location isn't /admin/ on > a Django site. I not trying to be a smart aleck or critical. I'm > really curious what I'm

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2006-08-17 Thread Deryck Hodge
On 8/17/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/17/06, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > actually we can help there as well by putting in a > > in the default > > admin base_site.html file. > > That's a great idea -- I've taken care of that in changeset 3600. An FYI and

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2006-08-17 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 8/17/06, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > actually we can help there as well by putting in a > in the default > admin base_site.html file. That's a great idea -- I've taken care of that in changeset 3600. Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com

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2006-08-17 Thread Ian Holsman
actually we can help there as well by putting in a in the default admin base_site.html file. /me goes to switch URL paths to make it a bit less obvious on his sites On 18/08/2006, at 5:12 AM, James Bennett wrote: > > On 8/17/06, wiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

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2006-08-17 Thread James Bennett
On 8/17/06, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/17/06, wiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en==Django+administration+Admin+Log+in+Username+Password=Search Incidentally, using Google's 'allintitle' keyword gives better results:

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2006-08-17 Thread James Bennett
On 8/17/06, wiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en==Django+administration+Admin+Log+in+Username+Password=Search And... that just tells us that people need to have their robots.txt disallow '/admin/' (or wherever they choose to have their admin app live). I would

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2006-08-17 Thread wiz
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