This really isn't that big of a deal. If you look through some of the results, you see things like blank forms (where "Confidential" refers to the information filled in by the applicant), boilerplate, attachments as part of public filings (where the document may have been confidential but came out in a trial) etc.
In one case, the "this document is confidential" is a phrase taken from the sentence "nothing in this document is confidential." I'm working on a "confidential" document right now, but it's intended for litigation and will likely show up in a records search in a year or two.
There may be something juicy in here, but you're gonna have to go through a whole bunch of the mundane to find it.
Most of these "confidential" documents are presentations made by google employees to other companies to sell adwords.
A peep into the documents reveal the huge investment Google does into Product Marketing Managers who do industry analysis, sell products predominantly adwords
Please don't confuse the US military with the US government. In the military if you can't do the job you're assigned, you get reassigned. If it doesn't do what it's supposed to do it gets axed. In the government...
I'm confused to why people do this, surely the must see the implication - webservers generally don't parse files with a .inc extension as php so it ends up being displayed as raw text.
Anyone who wants to read stuff more interesting than water permits being issued in Montana or business fluff like "Developing a Transparent Business Case that builds true Accountability" :-)
It sounds asinine since it requires the creator of documents to make the mistake in the first place, but is there possibly a useful service to be made for detecting sensitive documents of a company in a public location (public URI location, not physical location)? Is there nothing more useful than a google search? Just brainstorming.
take out 'this document is confidential', add SSN. a lot of false hits, but some genuine government employee records too. also the bush era whitehouse visitors logs which are just kinda interesting to skim through
The path contains the folder foi (freedom of information) so someone will have made a request for the document and they are obliged to release it to them if it meets the criteria.
In one case, the "this document is confidential" is a phrase taken from the sentence "nothing in this document is confidential." I'm working on a "confidential" document right now, but it's intended for litigation and will likely show up in a records search in a year or two.
There may be something juicy in here, but you're gonna have to go through a whole bunch of the mundane to find it.