Voyeur Heaven: Finding Unprotected Video and More

We've all got a little voyeurism in us. That's why the recent article, Clearing Google Search History to Maintain Your Privacy sent my visitor counts off the charts Google Search History article. In this article, I'm going to show you how to create search queries that will list the contents of unprotected directories on the Internet. You'll be able to play the music files, watch the videos, look at photos and more. I have to say, it's really addicting. First of all, I want to say that I got the idea for this from reading this article on -inurl(html|htm|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size] But, this is kind of boring. Too many unknown program files, text files, web pages etc. Let's narrow it down. You can narrow it down by looking for something in the name of a file in the list, or by the file type, or both. For example, this query tries to find any types of files about Jennifer Lopez. Within the directories I found music, image and movie files. [] Let's say that we wanted to find any movie files in WMV or AVI format: [] Or audio files in WMA or MP3 format: [] Or images in JPG or GIF format: [ ] You can get more specific by specifying both the file types and a search word to hopefully find in the name. For example, the following will attempt to find the infamous Paris Hilton video tape: [] Or, you can even take a guess at the file name someone might call it: [] So there you go. You can combine various search terms and experiment with this. As you've seen, this is not an exact science. The directory pages you bring up may have many or even all files which are unrelated to what you are looking for. But, it does make some good hits very often. I find the most fun searching for movies with an interesting or provocative search term and seeing what comes up. The samples in this article are rather safe and boring, but I'm sure you all have some good ideas of what to try and search for. Do me a favor and post a comment with some interesting queries you've had success with, or crazy files that you've found (as long as nothing private is given out). Google Tutor & Advisor. Google Tutor & Advisor offers in-depth Tips, Techniques and Advice for Google Users.Visit