Sunday, February 08, 2009

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From 600673.com to South Korea numeric 'bans' in 2 minutes

Whoever said that zeros don't spell anything?

It was us! But we were wrong. The domain 600673.com (apparently not owned by Google) is 1337 for Google.com. Cool! It looks like someone (non-Google) bought the domain to forward to the 'hacker' interface that Google had already designed and implemented at the URL http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/,
which translates the Google set of menus and buttons into 'h4x0r'. Google actually owns 466453.com, the wordnumber for 'Google.' (Look at your keypad).

Interestingly, if you type in the above URL (w/o http://), you get a rare disclaimer on the Google search results page that reads:

'In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org.'

That request reads in part:

'Google has received notice of a list of web sites from the Korean Information Security Agency that contain Korean ID numbers. In response to local laws, Google has removed the pages from its search results.'

It looks like these South Korean 'residence registration numbers,' sort of like U.S. SSNs, were leaked onto the web a few years ago and the South Korean government asked Google to remove all the links to webpages that pasted the numbers in full or IN PART.

I guess those now-banned websites also pasted the URL of Google's 'h4x0r' page.

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