Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent
I think I am going to be checking the dump to ensure my password is not among it…<p>Remember, don’t use the same password across the Internet. Here’s why.<p><i>Edit:</i> It’s there, apparently as a DES hash. …<p><i>Update 2:</i> The first two characters are the hash. So if you use a tool like <a href="https://hash.online-convert.com/des-generator" rel="nofollow">https://hash.online-convert.com/des-generator</a> you are going to put your password in the “Text you want to convert…” box and the first two characters of your hashed password in as the “Salt (optional)”. Then you will see the “Calculated DES Hash” which will be the same as the hashed password from the torrent if you knew or guessed the password correctly.<p>E.g.<p>Your Lifehacker password is “hackern”, but in the torrent, it’s just “8h48GPxmwy.EA”. Just to show the torrent is legit, you go to the website I entered above, enter “hackern” and “8h” as the salt; it will spit back “8h48GPxmwy.EA”.<p><i>Update 3:</i> “OFFER HN”: The most paltry “Offer HN” ever — send me your username or email address and I’ll grep both files for you to see if your password and/or hash is in one of them.  My email is contact-at-<HN username>ogan.com