The Humorous Side of Google Hacking and Online Privacy Concerns (Funny)

In this show called "Roommates", created by THE BiG HONKIN, we see the humorous side of how all the information we post online about ourselves, and which is mined, cataloged and made search-able by Google, can come back to bite us in the butt :) This is especially worrisome nowadays with the advent of social networking sites, where people post almost everything about themselves (location, age, birthdays, photos, travel plans etc) without thinking about the consequences or their own privacy.

By the way, the reason I mentioned "Google Hacking" in the title, is that "Google Hacking" is the process of searching using Google, with crafted search queries to find information which people would generally keep hidden but opened it up for search engines to mine by mistake.

The show is pretty light hearted and a good funny watch. As of this writing on 19th Sept 2009, there are 3 episodes available and I have embedded them all below! Enjoy!

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net