full-disclosure - Re: Plain Text Password Disclosure vulnerability in rediff mail

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:23:17 +0200
From: D-vice <lord.x86@...il.com>
To: Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com>
Cc: awf awf <lol-wut-hurr@...e.com>, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Plain Text Password Disclosure vulnerability
	in rediff mail

you the fuckard that got owned

LULz

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com> wrote:

> Beyond that, most web applications that do use SSL, still forget to set
> their cookies to secure (see
> http://fscked.org/blog/incomplete-list-alleged-vulnerable-sites ).  Not to
> mention the hordes of sites that have SSL logins off HTTP pages.  Even the
> oft-repeated "well, the attacker won't get the plaintext password" claim
> falls to the attacker who inserts some screen or keyboard sniffing JS into
> the login page.
>
> That being said, there probably is some class of attacker that can only do
> passive monitoring as opposed to active interception.  But it's not exactly
> a quantization to hang one's hat on.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:36 PM, awf awf <lol-wut-hurr@...e.com> wrote:
>
>>  And?  Every web application sends passwords as plain text unless they are
>> using SSL.  Pretty much any "encryption" that they may do client side that
>> isn't SSL is meaningless.  I hardly see how being able to sniff passwords
>> from a site that isn't using SSL is big news.
>>
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