Posts by Nicky

BitTorrenters seek sanctuary in Pirate Bay

love the music

From isohunt.com' newsboard:

"They're not stealing it because they're going to make money off of it; they're stealing it because they love the band." -- aint that enough?

Portuguese-speaking worm attacks Google Orkut users

login credentials and session cookies.

quote:

...it would have been relatively trivial for the authors of the Orkut worm to steal an Orkut user's logon credentials...

I'd doubt that as the logon credentials are passed at the time of login and what remains after that is only a token of authenticity in the form of browser cookies. Yes, it may be possible to steal that cookie and compromise a user's "session" which includes all of the Google services until a user logs out. I think people should stop click "Remember me on this.. " checkbox and avoid creation of a persistent cookie. Only my 2 cents.. please enlighten me if I'm wrong on this one.

Regards,

nix