Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
by geek_at on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:05AM
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Oh right I forgot about that.
Also back then (up until ~2005) browsers were hilariously insecure. For example I was in a forum of a local youth club and you could have signatures that were displayed under every post so I added some edgy image linked from my own webserver.
Some day I accidentally put the whole folder on a password protection which prompted the "username password" login window on every page my signature was linked to. FOR ALL USERS.
I realized users would think that the forum software would ask them to log in again for some reason so I basically got all passwords of people in the forum in plaintext on my webserver.
Also back then (up until ~2005) browsers were hilariously insecure. For example I was in a forum of a local youth club and you could have signatures that were displayed under every post so I added some edgy image linked from my own webserver.
Some day I accidentally put the whole folder on a password protection which prompted the "username password" login window on every page my signature was linked to. FOR ALL USERS.
I realized users would think that the forum software would ask them to log in again for some reason so I basically got all passwords of people in the forum in plaintext on my webserver.
Crazy times