Google Plugs Hole That Lets You Remove Any Website 116
blowdart writes "Google today disabled their webmaster tools after it was discovered that anyone could use the tool to remove any site from the google index. The exploit was pretty simple, all anyone had to do was to have a google webmasters tool account and edit a query string parameter on a valid removal to point to a domain they didn't own!"
Re:I really wish... (Score:3, Funny)
What!?!? Would you rather your sex change be done by an amateur?
Interesting applications possible... (Score:4, Funny)
What if someone used this exploit to remove Google.com? Then my parents couldn't enter 'google' in the white box (Google homepage) to get to 'the internet'!
Agh. I think my head exploded.