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Originally Posted by GatorB
I can tell you that 99.999% of new surfers have no clue WTF a newsgroup or IRC is. I myself have never been to or used neither and I have been on the net since 1999. Most surfers are to stupid use anti-virus and anti-spyware on their computers and are ignorant of the very basic fucntions of their computers.
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Follow me,
Google for a site and the word password.
[site] password
You get a list of sites, mostly bullshit trying to sell the site in question. Perhaps you get one site like,
http://www.bestpasswords.com/passwords/index2.shtml .
From there you go to,
http://www.worldstopsites.com/ and from there to,
http://www.passwordforum.com/v3/index.php?showforum=12 .
Posted here are thousands of logins to thousands of websites. You can upgrade to a gold membership where the passwords last longer and are for bigger name sites or harder to crack/hack sites. The owner of the forum has a login ID of imgltd for just about every big sponsor out there. Proudly displaying your banners while giving your passes away enmasse. Comical to say the least.
Notice the same sites are being hit over and over. This is because they all lack form logins, generated passwords or they stored them unencrypted so no one had to crack the form, they just stole the database (probably sold the emails too).
BTW, Think about emails. Would it be advantageous to split the email address at the 8th character and encrypt it? Of course this would stop you from being able to sell the list or use it for targeted mailers but it would also protect it. Or you could encrypt the entire list and use a long key to decrypt it as needed.