Thursday, October 08, 2009

Passwords on the Web

Somebody tried to post some 10.000 mailaccounts with passwords to pastebin.com. Bad idea, the post was truncated after ~ 10.000 lines, making the alphanumerically sorted list ending with B***.

Paul Dixon, aka Lordelph, the owner of pastebin.com (great idea for a website, btw) posted a blogentry about this here: http://blog.dixo.net/2009/10/07/pastebin-com-and-password-lists, you might get the rest of the story out of major media coverage.

While i really like the pastebin-concept i also like making fun of users contents: Doing a google-search for mailaccounts or password does reveal quite a few posts hosting passwords of different origins: There is are bulletin-boards complete userdatabase-dump, published by hacker-kids dissing other hacker-kids. There are gmail-accounts with passwords stored in scripts using the account for automatically sending emails or attachments.

I found a working facebook-account in another script.

And finally i found that google is not only indexing, but also caching the pastebin-entrys. So if you tag your pastebin-text with a lifetime of one day, or if you delete your pastebin-entry it is rather likely that searchengines have already indexed and cached your entry, thus totally subverting the TTL-concept of pastebin.

Seems like pastebin.com and its sisterprojects in other tlds (Thanks Paul for making the source available!) would be a nice place to spend the next procrastrinated afternoon.

Back to work now.

tom




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