If I get a hold of a text file and convert it to csv to look for your password, this fucks up the fields.
I don't understand a single thing in this post but I'm all for hacking the system. Go big computer nerds, we need you. You have the knowledge to sabotage this New World Order take over
Yep but instead they'll hack the guy that pissed them off in the vidyahgayme
Me too either!
Those small time hacks mainly affect the average Joe unless it's targeted.
csv files can be made to use escape characters and put strings in ' ' brackets.
Excel. Control h Replace all, with '' Or wrap all fields as a literal string
Trouble is, I would imagine anyway, is doing it to 65,535 rows. In Excel. They'd probably have scores of these files. Maybe there's a more efficient program out there.
I use notepad++ a lot for text editing millions of lines.
I just like that with excel I can bring in time saving functions like concatenate to convert a price file to sql inserts
The professionals use ascii hex representations of the usernames and passwords so that they maintain portability between systems. So, using commas only impacts the retards that don't know what they're doing. Just saying.
Hey! You're Skeletor! You're the bad guy. I shouldn't trust you.
I'll get you next time sheman!
It would be pretty trivial to find that extra comma, remove it from the CSV, and then process the CSV like normal.
You'd just have to find the point in the CSV data where the fields didn't seem to line up right, then remove that entry or fix it so that it reported your password as a single field instead of two or more separate fields.
It would be pretty trivial to find that extra comma, remove it from the CSV, and then process the CSV like normal.
Which would break your password and it wouldn't work thereby doing the thing the author of that image is trying to accomplish.
As I said, the hacker could just fix the password field so that it showed up as a single field rather than as two or more fields.
Like, by putting quotation marks around that field. I don't know, depends on what the hacker is using the read the CSV. If it's just a python script, it's not hard to add in some extra functionality like that.
Right, they could escape the comma. I'm sure the people who leak passwords have dealt with that kind of thing before.
Many password fields won't allow anything other than numbers and letters
Which systems do not allow special characters that are widely used? My ignorance of such systems is limiting my understanding of your point.
I haven't run into one. SQL, Oracle, AD, all the MFA solutions, all the password safe solutions, all the Linux Distros, all the Unix distros: they allow special characters.
I recall reading about password complexity limitations back in the day, though. Older systems may not permit passwords with special characters like COBOL. But updates to things for COBOL like CICS have permitted special characters in passwords for decades.
I believe Reddit is one example, but I haven't been on there in over a year...I have encountered it several times.
Ahhh, I created a troll account a couple of months ago on reddit and used the "suggested password" generator which includes a shitload of special characters. They probably upgraded their password system at some point.
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Good point, if it will allow those characters.
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