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[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

he's not wrong though.

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago
[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

That's why I use "" to escape the commas.

[–] Quexotic 24 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Pass","words","Are","fun","\n

Fuck that csv All the way up.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

A perspective from someone who red teams for a living:

If I encounter a password like that, I'm probably going to pay special attention to your account among the millions. Commas dont stop most people from being weak to password permutations either.

[–] Quexotic 1 points 12 minutes ago

Yup. Tis a joke.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

If you're manually checking the 12 million username password pairs in the leaked database you aren't really going to breach many accounts before people update their passwords, are you?

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

What if it's exported as a tsv?

[–] Quexotic 1 points 11 minutes ago

Then I'm f'd because it's really hard to enter tabs in most password text fields.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Depending on the Interface, its gonna be CSV or more likely txt for burp or cred tools.

[–] joan@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Add apostrophes to "commas" to mess with me

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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

It'll just get escaped by quotes.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Thanks to my password manager, commas are among the more tame characters that occur in my passwords.

[–] python@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hm, now you're making me wonder how feasible it would be to use Emojis in my passwords...

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Should work alright if the server handles Unicode correctly, and isn't one of those ass sites that put restrictions on the password's length and composition. Hashing functions don't even care if you're feeding them raw binary.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

Real passwords contain ASCII 0.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 hours ago

Guys calm the fuck down. The point of this joke is not that you’ll be bulletproof a few in sort of a few commas and passwords every now and then. The point is that a lot of these guys use terrible scripts that do not parse data correctly and they dump all of this shit into large CSV files. One or two people put an errand, in there that it doesn’t expect and it fucks the whole thing sideways for the entire set everything after the asshole with the comma password gets fucked. People that know what they’re doing will be just fine with it, but scammers generally don’t know what the fuck they’re doing and they pass this data along over and over and over again it change his hands frequently. So there’s more chances for it to get fucked along the way.

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (5 children)

Don't add apostrophes to make words plural, that's not how it works.

Until next time

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

It works like that in Dutch though. For example in Dutch the plural form for “baby” is “baby’s“

So the person who made this meme probably speaks Dutch.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

How* it works

Until next time

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Hey everyone! Look at @Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com! They're human after all!

(We all have made basic and advanced mistakes. It happens. =))

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think they just forgot a few words. “Add a comma’s beautiful presence to your passwords…”

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

They had to put a comma in there somewhere. Even of it was in the wrong place and upside down.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't text with commas in it get put in double quotes in acsv file to avoid this exact thing?

Like if I had cells (1A: this contains no comma), (2B: this, contains a comma), and (3C: end of line), the csv file would store (this contains no comma,"this, contains a comma",end of line)

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 8 hours ago

A CSV is just a long string of text with a few control characters tossed in for end lines. There are practically no rules enforced by the file type itself. You can dump that unsanitized and poorly awk'd data into whatever awful mess you want. Nobody's stopping you. Sure, excel will force it's CSV formatting rules on you when you export like a child's training wheels. But that's not relevant here.

[–] patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se 14 points 14 hours ago

Yes and no. Like yes, that can be true. But a lot of tools don’t handle commas correctly no matter how you escape them.

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Only if it's actually using a standard like rfc 4180 https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt

Also just noticed it specifies CRLF as the line ending, not LF, which is kind of weird.

[–] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 1 points 9 hours ago

Also 4180 is not a standard (it says on the first page)

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 29 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

CSV has standard escape sequences. This is pointless

See RFC-4180:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That standard won't stop me because I can't read!

[–] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

CSV existed for over 30 years before RFC 4180. Excel, and countless other tools, have their own incompatible variants. Excel in particular is infamous for mangling separators when exporting to CSV.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck Excel's CSV handing. It differs by locale, silently. Imagine the thousands of people every year who patiently wait to import a multi-megabyte CSV from some instrument only to see garbage because their language uses the decimal comma and semicolon separator.

[–] theoretiker@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 16 hours ago

I think semicolon separated files should be named SSV

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

You would be surprised how many people are simply splitting the string on commas instead of using an actual ascii parser. Especially for one off scripts, like churning through a csv full of passwords.

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[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 159 points 1 day ago (6 children)

fun fact, "commas" does not require an apostrophe

[–] a14o@feddit.org 64 points 1 day ago

Single quotes are another great way to mess with unsanitized data input though

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[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 80 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

add apostrophes to your meme to reduce clarity

[–] Toldry@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

add apostrophes to your meme to increase engagemeot

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 224 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Use EICAR test strings as passwords so when the password is stored as plain text the antivirus software will delete the file.

[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 20 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly it wouldn't work if found in a CSV file with other records:

According to EICAR's specification the antivirus detects the test file only if it starts with the 68-byte test string and is not more than 128 bytes long. As a result, antiviruses are not expected to raise an alarm on some other document containing the test string

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 123 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dude makes a whole binary of a virus his password.

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[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I must say some websites fail when you do that, you can change the password and later it fails to login

[–] Delusions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 97 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Add comma's

Add commas what?

Adding an apostrophe makes the s possessive

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Interesting... I wrote a gag comment about using an SQL injection as my password and crashed the Lemmy API. Using connect if that makes any difference.

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