Tell me about the place you live.
I started ABTM thread What is up with this phishing fuckstacker? and after the 15th post, most of the geniuses who responded were like “yeah, what’s up with that? Isn’t against board rules to start so many threads and not participate in them?” and “his threads are boring, I don’t bother replying,” or “how about we only delete the ones that look suspicious?”
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NOW, I see the birthdays thread has been revived with lots of fresh idiots to post personal information publicly.
The fuck is wrong with you people? This is Safe Internetting 101.
Hbk is my new hero, I’m glad there is a way to make money off of people this stupid. “Fighting Ignorance,” my ass.
“Attracting Ignoramuses In Hopes that They Might Learn Something, and Oops, Now They Outnumber the Rest of Us” might be a better slogan.
Oh, and to the little shits that will say the above slogan applies to me (because it’s the #1 pit sport, tell the OP he’s actually the idiot, and therefore you are superior): Go fuck a cactus.
Oh God, I that those types of account recovery questions for exactly that reason; there so easy to phish. I’ve got a secure technique for these, that I think works pretty well.
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[li]Copy the text of the security question, i.e “What’s the name of your first pet?”.[/li][li]Remove punctuation, trim whitespace and convert to lowercase. “whatsthenameof yourfirstpet”[/li][li]Append a crytographic salt or secret phrase “whatsthenameofyourfirstpetsecretword”[/li][li]Run the string through a hashing algorithm, for instance an md5 or sha1.[/li][/ol]
The whole process is takes like 10 lines in Python.
My one concern has always been if,that if there was a subtle spelling or phrasing difference between when you enter the question, and when they ask later on, you would be screwed. Saving the result would to disk somewhere circumvent this though.
Going around on Facebook is one of those questionnaire-type things “For Mother’s Day!” asking moms to “honor” their first child by posting their name, birthdate, age, etc. :smack:
I never put my DOB online or SS # . I was fooling around with my computer and Google my dad name he is dead and I found his full name and SS# online ! I was shocked and did the same with my mom who was alive and her full name and SS # were online too ! My parents never used a computer in their life and their personal info was online , you should Google your name and see what show up.
Wow. I might have replied that that Birthday one. But who can link “E-DUB” with my actual name in order for the birthday to do them any good? I know, the people who run the message board can. Sings the “Paranoia strikes deep” line from “For What it’s Worth”.
