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quick history, this post showed up about an hour ago
http://imgur.com/gallery/QPOMQ i figured what the hell, even if it has a buck then it was a fun way to kill a few hours.
lightbulb
there were 1000 possible passwords, but he said one of them was the correct one. easiest thing would be to use a custom dictonary with a brute force cracker and i'd be done in no-time right?
yeah.. not so much
before i even started there were so many wrong attempts that a captcha was required with each login attempt. fireforce wasn't built to handle captchas, so i was SOL. I resorted to randomly picking out, cutting a password and trying it.
holy sweet jesus
I was talking to my stepson while i was trying passwords, then suddenly i look back at imgur and HOLY SHIT I'M in. I then pasted the password again into a text editor so i wouldn't use it: iamthebenefactor popped up as soon as i pasted. that sneaky bastard...
so natrually i was like this
and this
this was the hidden image, pulled from the benefactors account. i assumed that "you know the password" meant it was the same password i used for the imgur account. smooth sailing from here!
outlook
i get to the outlook signin page and the password isn't working. i start flipping out. i realize i had to copy thebenefactors name at one point, so that wasn't the real password. i went back to my notepad and prayed a ctrl-z would work: and it did. the actual password?
TlDrNfap3d
yeah, thats "too long, didn't read and fapped"
in the email! it looks like someone tried to reset the password via email. i get in, download the rar file. its password protected, which means tit. it was probably just there in case someone got to the email without the first password.
a gif file? alright, lets extract it and open it up...
SON OF A BITCH! oh well. fucking op got my heart racing today, so i have that going for me, which is nice.
edemardil
[Slow clap]
GingerHeadMen
That sneaky fuck
wolfbyblood
this is amazing and I am so glad it wasnt dickbutt...
iamthediscofapper
That'll show you to trust someone on the internet. I met a Nigerian Prince once. He hasn't emailed me back.
PepeSilviaPepeSilvia
Expected Rick Astley. Prayed it wouldnt be Dickbutt
BillCroxson
maybe the bitcoin account is named "I.Lied" or something to that sort of effect...
FroggyFae
The Benefactor is truly a dedicated imgurian and now one of my new internet idols. What a glorious bastard. Best Villain 2014.
CaptainJackJack
AmazonYvie
"Wait! zoom in! further! I SAID FURTHER! Even Further! now enhance! its the password! We got that son of a bitch!" -CSI logic
KOZtic
I would check each frame of that .gif. Put it under all kinds of filters for another clue.
MOTHERFUCKINGALLAH
I think TlDrNfap3d means too long didn't read and fapped in 3d.
Leorions
That was well planned
Imgurprettymuchsucks
The only thing that made this better was that this album was 11 images, so I had to wait for the final gif to load.
ICollectReactionGifs
thanks. that was intentional :D
EflowNivek
So he was more like the Jigsaw apprentices which make their games unwinnable.
thebustownbutcher
Expected dick butt
tonto5150
That actually would have been a super time for dickbutt to appear
ImanerdDontjudgeme
Probᇉm is dic㎅utt isn’t strong eno㎍h of a message to ℡l a determ㏌ed OP t㏊t he ㏊s been lied to. OP would ended up stiᄔ search㏌g for BTC.
TheSlugtopus
The hero Imgur deserves.
NearRiver
Too much teen wolf.
OscarTheGrouch
$0 is an undisclosed sum of money.
Spaminal
Mildly entertaining, here's an upvote!
cjrmartin
above average: C+
ThwompStomp
way more than mildly
supersaiyanvirginia
TlDrNfap3d
DeadlyGrim
CONSPIRACY THEORY: OP is "The Benefactor" but got annoyed when no one tried to solve his clever troll, so he just posted it like this.
Muttons1337
I was in usersub when it got posted. Thought it was too much work to begin with, and was thankfully enlightened just now that I was right
whyarntyouplayingmountandblade
OP gets another email from the benefactor
Archaicorder
The reason I'm not playing is cause my newly formed empire is being assaulted by Swadians and its frustrating!
superwonka
WillyWonka was taken, so you're stuck with me. How can I help you?
gbombuh
YOU LOSE CHARLIE!
camtheman92
Good day sir!
Prioritized
AXE-ACTLY!
FreshM8
+1 for Axe
SheTurnedMeIntoANewtButIGotBetter
Hey guys... everybody lost the game.
DontCrossTheShitLine
FUCK
Kasai
Except it ended many years ago, but whatever.
pangolyns
mother of God I was at least a couple of months going. DAMN IT!!
Vicwood
The Benefactor? The 15year old girl in me instantly thought of teenwolf
Atrapos
I read through the comments to see if anyone else had the same thought, bravo my friend!
NathanHarmonArt
I actually ctrl+f searched to see if anyone else had mentioned this. +1
mistojen
Me too, not even gonna lie.
ThatComputerDude
And you have a virus.
gb74
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography - You ded.
PuppyDontCare
if the computer dude says it I would be scared
TheBasementNerd
Nah don't worry, he's cool
PuppyDontCare
omg the usernames keep getting better and better
chloramphenicolderivative
Yourusername is pretty new??
PuppyDontCare
Yes! why?
Resurrectionist
940000 bytes Exactly? What an odd file size. You might want to take a closer look at that gif.
wherearethenoodles
Exactly my thinking, especially with the filename "final test"
adambomb789
Steganography perhaps? Something hidden in one of the stills from the gif?
dv12900
There's a reason .gifs take so long to load. No-one ever optimizes them.
ninmonkey
The compression ratio is terrible in that screenshot.
AdeptusMechanicus
(((940,000/939)/(2014/264))+14+2-9-2) = 2.6287878787878787878787878787879, nearest whole number is 3, Half life 3 confirmed.
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jzzzzzzzzzz
You sir deserve a cookie
Kenblu24
This is correct. It's all just adobe XMP information.
Resurrectionist
The examples I found of this gif are 939,958 bytes. Somewhere along the line, this one got 42 bytes larger. Could be nothing, but...
ninmonkey
Try a diff.
sbasht
I took the same sample I guess you found. They both have the same creation day, but start having very small differences. Looking into it :)
iamthebenefactor
I've logged into the account. It's shit.
solomine
i changed the outlook name to "benefapptor"
iamthebenefactor
You'll never discover who wrote this.
ICollectReactionGifs
i know that you're in the UK and your ISP is British Sky Broadcasting Limited
Trollingforloling
1v1 him m8
jazzybear
Well fuck. I need to start using a VPN.
matethisisveryinappropriatebehaviour
And then you reveal your actual imgur account. What an adventure.
ICollectReactionGifs
virtual private networking wouldn't do what you want
porchside
Eh, you shoulda kept the account going and kept doing these things. Maybe now that you had publicity for it you could make them more complex
ICollectReactionGifs
he wasn't the actual guy. once my post got popular several people logged into his accounts since i didn't change the passwords
Getthepbout
That little bitch! I love it
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whatdoestheinternetthink
Holy shit...
aassaf84
Plot Twist: Open the gif file in notepad and you'll get the information you want.
Rezellmine
At least it wasn't dickbutt.
TinyLiehon
Probably just an attempt from OP to discourage other players while OP still inputs passwords
iamthebenefactor
What'chu fuckin' call me, bitch?
MyImaginationOnAFreeRun
That was quite entertaining move!
TheCatsKeepGettingMe
Looooool
Getthepbout
Who you callin' bitch, bitch?!
Beepity
Hey, I hear your account got hacked. You might want to change your password.
ICollectReactionGifs
i like you
ZacMuerte
think about it this way: it could've been my bitcoin wallet which has a whopping 0.017 cents in it. (yes, less than one cent)
ICollectReactionGifs
thats actually what i figured when he touted an "undisclosed amount"
cgimw
Actually that's slightly less than two cents according to my verizon currency calculator
ZacMuerte
(i honestly can't tell, are you making fun of verizon, or did you not get what I said? not $0.017, but $0.00017)
cgimw
It's a reference to http://verizonmath.blogspot.co.uk/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
cgimw
Rendal Munroe did a little feature on it, but it might have been a bit too obscure a refeence.
ZacMuerte
i had never seen that, and that's why I didn't get the joke. thanks for clearing that up
PuppyDontCare
"easiest thing would be to use a custom dictionary with a brute force cracker" Sure, I do this every day.(????)
Dominian
Lots of people do it, hence captchas. Now only people who are smart can do it.
TheLurkIsReal
I brute force into at least 5 female cracks a day.
MoccaFixer
some days even twice.
Monochron
You should, it's a fun skill to have, if not actually very practical.
toborne
how would one go about learning this skill?
Monochron
Same way you learn anything really, Google a lot, find steps online, watch a couple videos, practice a lot. That last one is the kicker.
EmCeeMiNacion
Tis how the fappening happened.
Monochron
Really? I had assumed they found a more useful exploit in the "Find my Phone" service?
naught101
There is no more useful exploit than trying out the top 1000 passwords. Use a pass-phrase, people. And not "correct horse battery staple".
Monochron
Sorry, but there is no way the leaks were the result of a brute force password attack alone. If so, they would have been leaked years ago.
LuckyTrouble
Brute forcing with a custom dictionary is just making your own list by which a program will roll through and try to log in with each combo.
toborne
how would one go about doing this?
PuppyDontCare
ahh thanks, so it´s useless to have a complicated password because you run this thing and that´s it?
buttshredder
If your password is on that SHORT list. Most sites allow about 70 diff. chars. which means over 100 billion possible pws with only 6 chars.
ParsleySage
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png
Leithoa
It depends. Using actual words is weak, using just numbers is weak, using L337sp34k is weak. Most sites/programs lock out users after many
Leithoa
2)failed attempts. Brute forcing doesn't always take a long time, good software will make it take a long time though. Longer passwords,
Leithoa
3)even weak ones, take longer just due to length. http://xkcd.com/936/
Imghurrr
No.. completely wrong. Complex passwords are much more difficult to crack.
LuckyTrouble
Not at all. Normal brute forcing goes through literally every possible combination. Unless you have good information, it takes lots of time.
Dusseldwarf
Yeah, but Google Ultron can crack any password less than 10 characters in a matter of minutes.
S33KER
If you use specials characters like $, & and @ etc and more than 8 chars then it's almost impossible to crack with BF.
LicensedAdHominem
This thing is slow, slower if the target password is longer.
LuckyTrouble
Essentially, unless you have a list of potential passwords, which is highly unlikely, brute forcing could take years.
sixfoothobbit
I'd estimate (not sure if the data is available anywhere) that 95+% of account passwords are stolen from attacks on the database, rather
sixfoothobbit
than attacks on individual accounts, and of course it doesn't matter how complex your password is if they can see it
Drift91
No, a complicated password PREVENTS this from working. Longer passwords prevent bruteforce, complex passwords prevent dictionary attacks.
Drift91
Oh wow, found this going through my history and didn't realize I already replied to this comment. XD
zotten
This is always the case. What matters is your password length, not the complexity. If they run a program, this program will
zotten
include all symbols. Having a longer password just means it will take longer to crack. There was a cartoony post about this somewhere..
turntablejoe
http://xkcd.com/936/
turntablejoe
Drift91
No, complete opposite. This thing is the whole reason you need a complicated password. "abc123" would take seconds to crack. (cont...)
Drift91
While "$Willy%58Nematodes$" would be virtually impossible to dictionary attack, and to bruteforce would literally take billions of years.
SimpleObservations
Except now since you've said it it's on every dictionary out there :P