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Re:Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Progra... by justinhj on Friday August 02, 2013 @11:39AM (#6147605)
The only thing I find odd is the deleting of the bash history. There are no passwords in there, unless you type one by accident.
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Re:Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Progra... by beerscout on Friday August 02, 2013 @12:33PM (#6147982)
If he used wget (or similar utility) he could specify password as a command line argument. It's not a very good practice security-wise but people do this sometimes.
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