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bradmccarty on April 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Got Hacked, Here's What We Found

His password was simple enough to be brute-forced.

thenextcorner on April 6, 2012 [–]

or he might have been writing an article in a Starbucks working on an open wifi. Anybody who has Wireshark installed can go fish for passwords and other log in credentials in your local Starbucks!

When will people learn that an open Wifi is not secure!

(not claiming this is what actually happened here!)

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