Release Date  : 05th Sept 2000 Time 0020 hrs
Hacking Yahoo Accounts

Who is responsible?The story

 For the unaware minds?

A quick answer first how do u save yourself from this hack? answer u cant save yourself as yahoo will provide u with a solution and hopefully sometime soon. but yes to save yourself u can uncheck save password option

So now you know the truth about your passwords and their saftey. Thats good now i can go to sleep and upload these pages some other day probably tommorrow probably after a week probably never. Whats the moral of the story. Well open source code is as buggy as the closed source code. I dont really need to write about the open source philosphy over here as it is too long and boring to read. But i read an article against one of the most popular open source software linux it was in wired.com "linux revisited" by Fred Moody. I would just like to say something to Mr Moody about what he quoted in his article "that People who write code for Linux are predominantly accountable only to their egos, whereas people who are paid for their time are also accountable to their stomachs. You decide who is going to write better code" well Mr Moody(u got a perfect name) i have decided I am not only accountable to my egos but i am also responsible for what i write as a software developer. Writing software is a much more challenging job then to write articles to influence other people. I would like you to try and write software instead of articles Try and understand what functioning of a Team means. what is the Time vs Quality race. As a software Developer we are always having less of time than the quality you want to achieve I believe thats the reason why other OS source code like windows is Closed. Imagine if it were to be opened what disaster will come by. It will be an opening of pandoras box? Need i mention more. As for money part that closed source developers recieve there are two facts i can tell you . People who are paid hefty amounts may not necessarily make good Software Developers. On other hand a person who loves his work can imagine the imposible and make it possible. Writing software is an art. So salary is in no consequence with the outcome of a better software. Secondly these very software developers and companies can manipulate the close source code for personal gains with open source we got nothing to hide we are clean and everyone knows it. I am no lover or hater of Bill Gates or Linus Toravald. I dont claim that linux is better than windows in any way or the other way around. But I do strongly believe in the open source movement. And i dont need to support linux with any words it is an OS that speaks for itself. As for me i am involved in closed source development for my bread and butter and an open sourced to satisfy my EGO :).

Why did i use perl as a language of choice? . I had written the sample code in Javascript making sure the proof can be found in one click .but i realised the potential speed up for a newbie to attach it to a vbs script and try to crack everyones passwords. I dont expect Yahoo's response to be prompt. I dont even expet this to hit the major headlines or make a big noise as a story like Yahoo's DDOS attack did. I think till it doesnt lead to disaster of that level no one needs to be bothered. Maybe yahoo will wake up and send up the emergency software update to all machine. Anyway so i leave it to the end user who reads the article to code it up in which ever language they like or just use ActivePerl. In meantime I hope yahoo corrects this bug before anyone else could write up a worm to exploit it.

Hope you can sleep well now leaving your passwords insecure for someone to hack. But then this should not surprise you at all lots of the software are vulnerable. Hope u do enjoy this article as much as i did enjoy writing it.

lipssssss signing out.