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Student collects 15 million Gmail addresses

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Another reason why google is not your friend :disappointed:
In his blog, a student from the University of Amsterdam reports that he gathered around 15 million Gmail addresses from Google user profiles within a month. Matthijs Koot analysed just under 35 million profile links from Google's profile site map, which is easily accessible on the company's servers. Koot says he used the same IP address for all of the 35 million queries, but Google didn't attempt to stop the mass download. A Google spokesperson told British IT news source The Register that the site map does not make any information available that is not already publicly accessible.

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Source: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Student-collects-15-million-Gmail-addresses-1251356.html
 
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