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The Dropbox hack is real

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Re: The Dropbox hack is real

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I really don’t know much about this scam thing and at the same time , no one wants to be on the losing side . But i just came across a good hacker who helped me hack my boyfriends text messages, whatsap, Facebook , Instagram messages remotely..You don’t have to touch his phone while you have access to his conversations through the software he bought and install remotely on my phone , i dont know how he did this but i…

maybe he shouldn't be your boyfriend...

Responding to spam :D

Re: The Dropbox hack is real

#532
post #529

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That isn't how 1Password works. Passwords are encrypted clientside, in a standalone native application.

Who wrote the standalone native application? To be more direct, I'm suggesting the standalone native application may not completely correctly implement the encryption algorithms. I have no evidence of this, but the concept still concerns me.

That's not what you said. You said that if someone owned up 1Password, the whole Internet would be in trouble. But that's like saying that if someone owned up one of the OpenSSH developers, the Internet would be instantly vulnerable. A false statement.

Re: The Dropbox hack is real

#533
post #378
post #109

Make sure you sign yourself up for something like https://haveibeenpwned.com if you haven't already. Sometimes being timely in responding to leaks can make a big difference on any further leaks.

This was a strange way to find out that I have a Tumblr account.

Haha same here.

Re: The Dropbox hack is real

#534

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It's often called plus addressing. Quite a common feature in mail servers and mail services. MyName+ at gmail.com ends up in MyName's mailbox.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Surely anyone savvy enough to be dealing in black-market e-mail address lists is savvy enough to just remove everything after the + sign?

Probably yes. The software I'm using supports configuring the character per domain, so I can use say . instead of +, so I could use myname.service@example.com which I assume would solve that.

Re: The Dropbox hack is real

#535
post #530

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That's a really unhelpful comment. Please specify what encryption you think Dropbox is doing on the passwords and what knowledge you have on the topic. I'm pretty sure you're going to say "they do TLS" and then the person you're talking to can go ahead and explain that the encryption LastPass/1Password does protects an entirely different threat model, but unless you have a conversation here no one is going to be able…

To be clear, I don't owe you or anyone anything with regards to this conversation. I am not obligated to conform to any particular conversational strategy, and if my intention was to simply claim something was incorrect without elaborating, I am entitled to do so. That said, I was wrong. I recalled what bcrypt does incorrectly.

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Re: The Dropbox hack is real

#536
post #530

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That's a really unhelpful comment. Please specify what encryption you think Dropbox is doing on the passwords and what knowledge you have on the topic. I'm pretty sure you're going to say "they do TLS" and then the person you're talking to can go ahead and explain that the encryption LastPass/1Password does protects an entirely different threat model, but unless you have a conversation here no one is going to be able…

To be clear, I don't owe you or anyone anything with regards to this conversation. I am not obligated to conform to any particular conversational strategy, and if my intention was to simply claim something was incorrect without elaborating, I am entitled to do so. That said, I was wrong. I recalled what bcrypt does incorrectly.

Good luck with that.

Re: The Dropbox hack is real

#537

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The downloads are all GPG-signed, so that shouldn't be an issue. You have the issue of the initial trust, but that applies to HTTPS too to a lesser extent.

How many people do you think download the application, then check the signature? Additionally, if you can spoof the download link on this HTTP page, you can also spoof the signature link, and provide a fake signature matching your malicious package.

Frankly, about the same number of people as the number checking the HTTPS certificates are as expected. GPG does have the advantage though that once the public key is known and trusted, the package can't be tampered with on the server. (Authenticode might also work, but then you're back to trusting all the CAs that Windows does.)

Re: The Dropbox hack is real

#538
post #272

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The trouble is that no one actually implements the email standard from the IETF RFC documents. In fact, some people[0] even actively discourage doing so, despite there being little in the way of good reason to not. The argument essentially goes "well, users aren't going to be likely to use those characters, unless they're doing something bad, and they make it difficult to insert the email into the database." I feel l…

Email RFC is weird. Did you know email addresses are supposed to be case sensitive? Like bob@ and Bob@ are two different addresses? Some services treat them this way, most don't. That intersection (oauth2 for example from Google can return Bob.Smith@domain.com if Bob has a GA4W account, which causes trouble when the oauth handler inconsistently lower-casifies input.

Really? By my reading RFC-5321 & RFC-5322 leaves interpretation of the local-part up to the software running on the host where the mail is delivered, but since that interpretation is up to those servers, intermediate servers must treat them as case sensitive and not make modifications to the local-part.

Re: The Dropbox hack is real

#539
hi, am Anderson, i had my friend help me hack my ex's email, facebook, whatsapp,and his phone cause i suspected he was cheating. all he asked for was a his phone number. he's email is (cyberlord7714@gmail.com)..IF u need help tell him Anderson referred you to him and he'll help. Am sure his going to help you do it, good luck

Re: The Dropbox hack is real

#540
hi, am Anderson, i had my friend help me hack my ex's email, facebook, whatsapp,and his phone cause i suspected he was cheating. all he asked for was a his phone number. he's email is (cyberlord7714@gmail.com)..IF u need help tell him Anderson referred you to him and he'll help. Am sure his going to help you do it, good luck
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