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Pastebin abused

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Re: Pastebin abused

#11
Why is it considered an abuse?

Here is a description on what service pastebin provides: "Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time."

It doesn't make pastebin abused just because some internet individual thinks it is only for interesting source code.

Re: Pastebin abused

#12
This is why you always must remember to set good expiration settings and edit out any confidential content (like passwords or identifying chunks of code) when you use a pastebin.

Re: Pastebin abused

#13

Why is it considered an abuse? Here is a description on what service pastebin provides: "Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time." It doesn't make pastebin abused just because some internet individual thinks it is only for interesting source code.

It's possibly abuse because it's possibly used for illegal activities.

"just because some internet individual"

Your condescending tone implies undisclosed motives. I might be wrong, feel free to correct me.

Re: Pastebin abused

#14
post #9

Never thought about this. It's scary what even a basic search such as site:pastebin.com password username can return.

Have you tried searching for "site:pastebin.com mysql_connect" ? That's even scarier. There's people that do post their database password and username publicly.

Re: Pastebin abused

#15
I thought everyone knew this. Pastebin hasn't been used seriously for pasting code snippets for years, everyone's moved to one of the (much) better pastebins. Here's just a few i can think of off the top of my head:

http://paste.pocoo.org/

http://gist.github.com/

http://dpaste.org/

http://fpaste.org/

http://codepad.org/

and http://rafb.net/paste/ before it was shut down

Re: Pastebin abused

#17
post #7
post #4

It's kind of rude not to edit out the usernames and passwords from his examples.

He states "I have changed some details to protect the innocent." While I haven't tested any of the examples myself, I'd assume they're subtly munged.

I can confirm that the adult site passwords do not work.

Re: Pastebin abused

#18
post #17
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He states "I have changed some details to protect the innocent." While I haven't tested any of the examples myself, I'd assume they're subtly munged.

I can confirm that the adult site passwords do not work.

hah!

Re: Pastebin abused

#20
post #15

I thought everyone knew this. Pastebin hasn't been used seriously for pasting code snippets for years, everyone's moved to one of the ( much ) better pastebins. Here's just a few i can think of off the top of my head: http://paste.pocoo.org/ http://gist.github.com/ http://dpaste.org/ http://fpaste.org/ http://codepad.org/ and http://rafb.net/paste/ before it was shut down

also http://jsfiddle.net/
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