Techdirt | by Mike Masnick | Thu, May 24
Thu, May 24
Bennett Haselton has written up an interesting article at Slashdot, highlighting just how easy it is to find large collections of credit card information using Google. The method is pretty straightforward -- and has been written about extensively in the past. What's interesting, thoug...
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