I just discovered one of my Warrior Forum Private Messages while searching a deep web search engine

[I.M.Retired]

I was using a search engine and typed in my name. Lo and behold I found one of my replies to a Private Warrior Forum question that displayed both the question and my answer.

How can this be possible? I found the question and answer publicly visible using a deep web search engine.

I don't want to publish the links here, as the message was private. The only think I did out of the ordinary in the message was sign the reply to a question from a fellow warrior using my personal name. The message is displayed in the questioner's Visitor Messages section.

I will publish a link to the search engine I used. I don't know if I should publish the link to the Private Message that I discovered.

If anyone has any suggestions, please contact me via a PM, and whatever you do, don't use your real name at the bottom of the message. I often do this, but so far, only found one message with my real name attached.

Here's the search engine I was using:

Infospace.com - one-stop search

[George Wright]

You were logged into the Warrior forum at the time Log out and see if you still see it.

George Wright

Originally Posted by Val.S.

I was using a search engine and typed in my name. Lo and behold I found one of my replies to a Private Warrior Forum question that displayed both the question and my answer.

How can this be possible? I found the question and answer publicly visible using a deep web search engine.

I don't want to publish the links here, as the message was private. The only think I did out of the ordinary in the message was sign the reply to a question from a fellow warrior using my personal name. The message is displayed in the questioner's Visitor Messages section.

I will publish a link to the search engine I used. I don't know if I should publish the link to the Private Message that I discovered.

If anyone has any suggestions, please contact me via a PM, and whatever you do, don't use your real name at the bottom of the message. I often do this, but so far, only found one message with my real name attached.

Here's the search engine I was using:

Infospace.com - one-stop search

[I.M.Retired]

George: I wasn't on the Warrior Forum at all - I was completely logged out and just using the search engine above. The message at the bottom result stated: exclusively from Bing

Just sent you a PM Goerge.

[George Wright]

Not trying to beat a dead horse here; Were you actually logged out or just "off" the forum? In other words when you came back to this forum did you have to log in with your user name and password or when you came here were you already logged in?

George Wright

Originally Posted by Val.S.

George: I wasn't on the Warrior Forum at all - I was completely logged out and just using the search engine above. The message at the bottom result stated: exclusively from Bing

Just sent you a PM Goerge.

[I.M.Retired]

I wasn't anywhere near the forum - just on the SE site - and Yes, I did have to login when I came here to post this message.

Check you PM and see if you can see what I see - or saw

Edited to add: I just reloaded the link I send you, and now I see your name added to the list of recent visitors. I'm really curious to know what you saw when you clicked that link, because that is the link that showed up in the search engine results.

[George Wright]

PM, negative that's good

Originally Posted by Val.S.

I wasn't anywhere near the forum - just on the SE site - and Yes, I did have to login when I came here to post this message.

Check you PM and see if you can see what I see - or saw

[I.M.Retired]

Does that mean you didn't see anything - as in the original question and my answer?

I hope that's what it means!