WARNING: do not use google's new web accelerator while on the forums

[Rando]

I do not know all the details, but google has a new web accelerator that makes a cache of pages you've visited. For whatever reason, there's a bug or exploit that can cause private information to pecome public, such as PM's and login/password combos. This seems to be an especially big problem with vBulletin

Just a heads-up.

EDIT: OK, it seems google caches everything and then makes it available on the search engine, including stuff like PM's.

 

[Spiderman]

Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[Nightstalkers]

I don't really use web accelerators at all... and I've still got dialup.


I don't see the point to web accelerators... They only trick you into thinking your web is going faster by doing some underhanded things.

 

[Ed Sullivan]

This seems to be an especially big problem with vBulletin

I already emailed Google about that. They seem to be ignoring the headers we sent that tell it not to cache the page.