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by camhenlin 4143 days ago
Man, I hope my password isn't in there.
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What's your password? I could check the file to see if it's there. I found one of mine. Does anybody know from where these passwords are from?
hunter2
For those not familiar: http://bash.org/?244321
Oh, the memories!
Public dumps mostly from the last 5 years, but some as old as ten years
>What's your password?
Actually three of my own passwords are on there, I left them in
Read the actual article. None of this data is new:

All data currently is or was at one time generally available to anyone and discoverable via search engines in a plaintext

My thoughts exactly. I'm amazed that I can download the file, but at least I get to see if any of my passwords are there.
I'm not!

#successkid