Harsh J

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All your base will belong to you

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If you dare to post the true output of this from Linux:

grep ass .*/*cc*.x*

Written by Harsh

June 7th, 2008 at 12:16 am

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  1. Dammit.
    ~WTH! didn’t knew my saved passwords were to unsafe :o

    Gaurish aka gary4gar

    7 Jun 08 at 9:20 am

  2. Heh I need more obfuscation :D

    Harsh

    7 Jun 08 at 9:27 am

  3. How about this
    grep ass .*/*cc*.x* >> ass
    then upload the file ass :)

    mehul

    7 Jun 08 at 9:59 am

  4. yeah wget and a public server added to that would be awesome :P

    Harsh

    7 Jun 08 at 10:20 am

  5. hahah loved that.. but good is a user password, you’d still need root to do something purely devasting, isnt it?

    sindhu

    7 Jun 08 at 11:59 am

  6. Its a start, I can wreck social life first :P

    Harsh

    7 Jun 08 at 12:04 pm

  7. heh i betchya can, so where did ya find this out from?

    sindhu

    7 Jun 08 at 12:28 pm

  8. Oh it was long ago, was looking for a way to backup my GAIM aliases I had set for all my contacts (They seemed to go away with a reinstall of the OS, but now they work fine and server-side) and stumbled upon the accounts.xml file. There is a way you can encrypt it, google for pidgin password encryption :)

    Harsh

    7 Jun 08 at 1:04 pm

  9. Hmm..really interesting.wish you will explain a bit more.encrypting helps?it read both my gmail password and gdm passwd :O

    programming is “O” with me. :D but it seems some xml conf files that it reads?

    also “.*/*cc*.x*” explains the wild cards please :)

    Prakash

    7 Jun 08 at 10:51 pm

  10. prakash encrpying will mangle your password in such a way that no one else can crack it and get your original password, except the application which encrypted it. So, your password is safe.
    This is in no way related to programming, it’s related to basic usage of CLI and regex. Anyone into a bit of system administration would know this.

    * means all the files matching all alphabets and numbers irrespective of the length
    *.* - all the files in current directory
    *cc*.x* - all the files having cc somewhere before the . and x immediately after it

    harsh, a small correction
    grep ass ~/.*/*cc*.x* >> my_ass

    mehul

    8 Jun 08 at 12:36 am

  11. Wow… Nice find Harsh. Only a matter of time before I own my friend’s PCs… (Actually only one had linux installed :-( )

    Aditya

    9 Jun 08 at 3:46 pm

  12. On Windows look under Application Data / Purple

    Harsh

    9 Jun 08 at 4:12 pm

  13. Wow.

    Rohit

    12 Jun 08 at 8:11 pm

  14. meh, dowze doesn’t have grep

    anomit

    29 Jun 08 at 10:08 am

  15. anomit you can always install it.

    mehul

    13 Jul 08 at 12:09 pm

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