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Donate. Donate! "Here's my password, and also five dollars." They are literally getting people to pay them to give up their passwords.

This is the best social engineering attack I've ever seen.



That was my first assumption too, but Wireshark doesn't show anything going across the network as I type, and nothing that looks incriminating when I click "donate" with text in the password box. It looks like it's entirely client-side JavaScript as it claims to be. Kind of disappointing, actually.

edit: ...Unless it's clever enough to only be evil some fraction of the time. I didn't actually check through the code.


Theoretically, it could store the password in a cookie, and later retrieve it, along with (somehow) a gmail id.



Now they need to come up with an excuse for people to create accounts on the site so that they get their usernames.




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