Google Accelerator may show private forums

[JupMan]

Has anyone encuontered this problem? Google's new Accelerator software is reported to be caching the website's that show up on someone's system and then caching them for others to see.

This could include the private areas of a vB forum. If someone who has moderator privileges at a forum is running Google Accelerator, they could be opening up moderator-only forums for pubilc viewing.

See this article for details (%0Ahttp://www.24x7updates.com/FullStory-News-Goolge_Confirms_Bugs_in_Web_Accelerator-ID-38305.html)

Google said it's going to stop allowing Accelerator downloads while it works on a fix, but the software is already out there....

[Gary King]

There isn't really much that Jelsoft can do about this; one way, though, would be to add an IP check to only restrict users to one IP. This is one of the few ways to restirct account access to only certain people; but it isn't really plausible in larger environments.