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Something i do quite regularly is google search each of my passwords, and I would advise anyone to do the same. I found several older passwords with my login
by paulnelligan 15y ago
Something i do quite regularly is google search each of my passwords, and I would advise anyone to do the same.
I found several older passwords with my login up on a file-sharing website not so long ago. Luckily I didn't suffer the same fate as the writer's wife.
Also, I believe that google should have 'paid support' in place for this type of situation. No doubt it would be profitable for them, and would save many people quite a lot of pain.
- ern 15y agoSomething i do quite regularly is google search each of my passwords, and I would advise anyone to do the same. The problem with this is that your password could end up in your web history and autocomplete. The other option would be an incognito session, but I think that could still lead to it ending up on Google Suggest if you do it often enough.
- paulnelligan 15y agoI'm not worried about that, since it's basically nonsensensical text, and with the amount of searching I do, it's going to be buried. By regularly, I mean about once a month.
- alexdias 15y agoFollowing your tip by curiosity, I googled one my old passwords, which was leaked in the most recent Lulzsec release (in MD5 form). And there it was, in cleartext, on the second page of the search results, along with the username that I used on battlefield heroes beta. It was on a pastebin with another 60k combinations of usernames and passwords. The password was only 6 characters in size though (along with every other on that pastebin), so I guess that made it a certainty that it would get cracked.
- paulnelligan 15y agoHow about the other combos, were they also all 6 characters in size?