[swiki-bugs] Fwd: Squeak Wiki - hacked big time!! & continuing to be hacked

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Wed Dec 8 19:30:27 UTC 2004


On Wed,  8 Dec 2004 09:11:51 -0800, Darius <squeakuser at inglang.com> wrote:

> Could someone leverage Diego's video manipulation classes & Morphic's ability to
> convert text to gif to hack together an "enter the text you see in the graphic"
> security feature? The hardest part would be selecting a range of words.

You wouldn't even need to select a range of words. The system could
randomly choose 5 or 6 characters from normal keyboard ASCII-printable text
(or even just letters and numbers).

You also wouldn't need any video stuff -- the server would know what the
raw text is, and as long as what the person types in matches it, everything
would be fine.

Later,
Jon

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