How to Hack a Google Search Appliance

Google search appliance is actually sort of like a on perim version of Google search, which I didn't know existed. They bought one on eBay and figured out a way to get the firmware from some old Google group that shouldn't be public. And then they just brute forced every potential file version with that formatting on the same host - it came back with actual files.

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