Hacker Secrets Revealed
Well, actually I just tried his user name
charlespytko in URL
http://mywpages.comcast.net/charlespytko to get to the
index and went from there.
The URLs of most sites are 'indexed', so if you find the
index page(s) you can pretty much
hack into anywhere on the site from there. Usually all you need is a clue as what the pointer is. Obviously on ComCast it is the user name.
Here is another example:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~japeters01/_uimages
Now, I didn't make that page, but I have pics
uploaded to that site and they are subsequently
indexed for retrieval over the web. You have undoubtedly seen this before, most likely listing jpegs and pdfs. Now if I had secret photos uploaded there, and told no one the URL, they could obviously still be open to the world.
Even if the site doesn't link a certain page, and the URL is totally unknown, it can still be unknowingly available to the public across the world wide web through the index page. Like a house on a street with no house number or mailbox. Except in this house is an index file of everyone else's address on the block even if they have no house number or mailbox! Find the index page of a site and their world is yours.
Early on in the www, it was quite amazing what was available across the web using this technique. Very similar to early networking tricks to get to the root directory of any machine listed on the network.
