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If I get a hold of a text file and convert it to csv to look for your password, this fucks up the fields.

If I get a hold of a text file and convert it to csv to look for your password, this fucks up the fields.

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[–] • 2 pts

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.

[–] • 3 pts

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.

[–] • 1 pt

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.

[–] • 1 pt

Right, they could escape the comma. I'm sure the people who leak passwords have dealt with that kind of thing before.