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Passwords of 8,000 Comcast Customers Exposed
« on: March 17, 2009, 01:37:27 AM »

A list of more than 8,000 user names and passwords for customers of Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, sat unprotected on the Web for the last two months.

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Re: Passwords of 8,000 Comcast Customers Exposed
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2009, 05:44:27 PM »
woa!!! I cant belive that!

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Re: Passwords of 8,000 Comcast Customers Exposed
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2009, 06:13:35 PM »
Sounds like a entry for The DailyWTF.  ;D
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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Re: Passwords of 8,000 Comcast Customers Exposed
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2009, 06:38:35 PM »
Yeah not exactly sure what would require them to post a page with this type of information unprotected and accessible to everyone?
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    Re: Passwords of 8,000 Comcast Customers Exposed
    « Reply #4 on: March 27, 2009, 08:04:01 PM »
    8,000 passwords yikes!!!!!! ???
    1 day I will get a faster computer.