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April 27, 2010
Can Hackers Access Your Site Through Google Analytics?
By Dave Taylor
A friend of mine told me that by including Google Analytics code on my site I am leaving open doors for hackers to break into my site and deface my pages or hijack the server entirely. Now I'm kinda freaked out. Is this true?

Dave's Answer:

This isn't true, and I don't know why people think it's a risk. Google has a ton of smart engineers: do you think they'd have a popular product like Google Analytics (which I run on this site) be something that could be exploited by hackers? I sure don't.

But to clarify, I asked my friend Bennett Haselton to share his thoughts on this matter. Bennett writes for the programmer/geek site Slashdot, among others, and has a good handle on how people who break into sites exploit weaknesses. Here's what he said:

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