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Originally Posted by SirBC
In other words, if you do not publish somewhere on the web a link to any of the flies in your public folder, the odds of a search engine (or anyone else) finding any of those files is infinitesimally small.
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As Harry says, security through obscurity is rarely a good idea. In this particular case, anyone that has the link could publish it or make it available. Or someone with access to their machine (not necessarily legitimate access) could make it available.
There's a saying about the chance of a secret being revealed being the square of the number of people that know it. The more people you give the link to, the more likely it is to end up with someone you didn't intend to have it.