Google code search product immediately attracts hackers

Google's recently-released search engine for computer coders has already found an audience likely to find use in the product -- for for bad purposes. Hackers have apparently flocked to Google's latest product offering as a way to infiltrate holes in open-source software, as computer security professionals have started studying the Google tool to see what those who take up and use this Google product can expect in terms of security vulnerabilities.

With Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) saying the following in relation to the Google code search tool -- "We will try to make this useful for everyone from computer science students to serious programmers and even hobbyists and code enthusiasts" -- one could make the case that hackers are indeed "code enthusiasts". Very serious code enthusiasts at that.

What can Google do about this? Software tools can always be used for malicious purposes. Google is not alone here, but may take some flack for this initially. After all, Google's search engine is so good that it regularly indexes content from the web that is really not meant for public consumption. Too good a product can attract, um, just about any element of society -- good and bad.