T/S: Defamer v. Gawker

also, waiting for one funny one

http://stevelundeberg.mvourtown.com/files/2010/06/password.jpg

pw: unguessable

On November 11, Dr. Morbius received a notice that he had set up a new username and password at Gawker chat rooms. Because he knew he did not request this, and also had been told by someone else that he had been logged into Campfire (but also knew he had not), he asked members of his team to investigate. He did not however bother to change any of his other accounts that used the same password as his Campfire account.

Can I do the old "I tried using 'penis' as my password but it told me it was too short" gag now, please?

not really trying to zing morbz. I work for a website and can peer in at user pw's. I'm just amazed at how little thought goes into them. hogsfan, gohogs, f00tball, thurman94.

And that's not just the pa$$words, birthdays and us3rnames typed with numbers. If I ever get drunk with power, I could probably have a field day reading email at AOL.com.

the ultimate power trip

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/39038706_6313b6b178.jpg

that forbes blog post is interesting but is weirdly written, like it's been google-translated or somethign

Maybe written by a Polish hacker trying to throw everyone off the scent.

sh0ts0frum

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/data-279937-mcdonald-personal.html

Like the unique African Baobab tree, which nourishes its community with its leaves and fruit, McDonald's has branched out to the African-American community.

http://www.technology-guide.co.uk/images/8GB_hambager.jpg

my email was included but i also didn't get one from gawker

so was mine, and i didnt get an email from max either

tickle you in your opinion

I think the real mistake was in creating a gawker account

― deej me how to whiney (dayo), Sunday, December 12, 2010 11:53 PM Bookmark

so was mine, and i didnt get an email from max either

― tickle me imo (s1ocki), Monday, December 13, 2010 2:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

well, this is a separate issue from the gawker hack -- max's girlfriend was getting too jealous

did she say anything?!?

move the entire network of blogs to tumblr imo

i'm gonna keep a running tally of sites that have closed my accounts due to suspicious activity

- gmail
- linkedin (lol you guys can take this one)

wait, they closed your gmail account?

yeah -- when i woke up this morning my droid had an error message (OS is linked w/ google) so i knew something was up, went to gmail & had to enter my phone number, they texted me a code, i entered that code into gmail & they allowed me to change my password

so i'm back in now

oh ok

Oh shit, I registered a Gawker account at some point? Fuck me.

i received an email from gawker 9 mins ago

Yeah, my email was from 20 minutes ago.

But I mean: I don't even know when I posted on Gawker, so I have no idea what my password even was.

maybe idolator?

that's where my account originally came from

Ohhhhhhh...

i received an email from gawker asking if i had heard from max and whether he was ok

i feel like people wondering when/why they created gawker accounts could be the plot of The Killer Inside Me 2

I'm not super familiar with Gawker. Just curious why a lot of people hack it.

― kshighway (ksh)

hahahahahaha

BUZZA FOR MOD

One snarky comment and you're screwed for life.

So I originally registered for Idolator in 2006, and I'm pretty sure I don't currently use that password anywhere (whatever it might have been). Now a search of my Gmail indicates that I reset that password in 2009, probably to something I do currently use elsewhere, but since Idolator was no longer part of Gawker at that time, I should be OK, right?

this was posted upthread http://undertow.jedsmith.org/gawker

ah mine must have been idolator too

max emailed me at 9pm - customer service!

Well my username/e-mail have definitely been compromised. But that doesn't mean anything if the password was unique, no?

\(o_O)/

Hmm, mine is on that list as well, though the e-mail address I used was a secondary anonymous-y one, so I don't know that it can be traced to anything other than that e-mail account.

if the password you gave gawker was unique, you're fine

cool i've used 'unique' for all my passwords

you weren't kidding

hey caek it looks like your gawker password was unique too...also your ilx one

lol

http://www.observer.com/2010/media/turning-gawker-itself

But there was also the very real chance that editors and writers across the city could now be outed publicly for dissing their bosses in private. One Gawker and Jezebel commenter with a Condé Nast email address, for instance, had written in about making up quotes at a women's magazine; the condition of Anna Wintour's 60-year-old skin; and her experiences with both circumcised and uncircumcised penises. Twenty-six readers registered with Times email addresses, 21 from Condé Nast, 12 from Time Inc., 18 from Hearst, nine from The Journal, six from the Post and three from the Daily News. An untold number more used harder-to-detect private accounts. But searching for media coworkers—and rivals—became as simple as plugging their personal email addresses into an easily downloadable 72-megabyte text file, a 1.3 million-entry fantasia of byline hunting. Did Jeffrey Toobin really register with the name "ValentinoAgamemnon"?

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