
By Stephen Shankland
Published: Wednesday 16 April 2008
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Name
Anonymous
Location
Scotland
Occupation
Director
Comment
This is exactly what some hackers already do. One of the reasons for pages not being available directly is that they may contain some form of restricted information, or that which few people are allowed access to. Many of those pages may contain images, and other information that comes together on the initial page and means something. ie a form of database stucture in which the basic components are out of context until assembled. This can give rise to all sorts of interesting, and more likely unfortunate consequences. Not only that but underlying hidden details may well be out of date and basically misleading. In other instances some information may be in the process of being built and assembled ready for a future launch. With websites potentially being extremely large it is often easier to upload material bits at a time, especially if different parts of a website need to be udpated independently and at different times.
Also the habit of an active search like this means that web-servers will be doing much more unproductive work than they were originally sized for.
There isn't any real point in this exercise, other than trying to be clever. Many of us waste inordinate amounts of time fighting hacking attacks and this will just add to that.
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