Unless you password-protect it, any webpage can be found by a search engine, after all.
Not true; I don't know of any search engine that actually probes random possible page addresses. They only follow links, and if there are no links to it, they won't find it.
I use this deliberately myself for low-security short-term sites (like photo proofs and such; they're really only intended for the client, but it doesn't matter much if somebody else does get in, and it's convenient for the client to be able to forward the URL to anybody they want to be able to get in).
But I do agree it's a poor choice for something that would be seriously embarrassing if it got out.
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Date: 2006-11-09 08:54 pm (UTC)Not true; I don't know of any search engine that actually probes random possible page addresses. They only follow links, and if there are no links to it, they won't find it.
I use this deliberately myself for low-security short-term sites (like photo proofs and such; they're really only intended for the client, but it doesn't matter much if somebody else does get in, and it's convenient for the client to be able to forward the URL to anybody they want to be able to get in).
But I do agree it's a poor choice for something that would be seriously embarrassing if it got out.