[Infowarrior] - Locating Hidden URLs = "Hacking"

[Richard Forno]

Another win for security-through-obscurity!!!!!


Minister, a monkey could have 'hacked' secret transport site
MATTHEW MOORE February 23, 2010 - 5:11PM

The government site they didn't want you to see ... all a reader had  
to do was type http://nswtransportblueprint.com.au/project into their  
computer's address bar and tap 'enter'. Some hack.

You know a government is in trouble when it starts accusing aging  
Sydney Morning Herald hacks like me and my colleague Andrew West of  
engaging in high level cyber crime.

And yet, in his first day in Parliament since announcing on the  
weekend details of the government's transport blueprint, the only  
question from the Labor benches to Transport Minister Dave Campbell  
concerned a fanciful claim the Herald had somehow hacked a top secret  
website to reveal the plan early.

Campbell said that by accessing a website where the plan was  
available, the Herald had done the equivalent of "pick the lock off a  
secure office and take highly confidential documents".

He went further and said the campaign to crack the site had been so  
determined there had been "3727 hits on the firewall of the website  
from four different IP addresses" last Thursday and Friday and the  
contractor in charge of the site, IT private, had referred the matter  
to the police.

Really?

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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/minister-a--monkey-could-have-hacked--secret-transport-site-20100223-p085.html