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The email addresses and passwords of more than a million users of the YouPorn sex chat site were exposed to all and sundry this week following a coding error that went undetected for years. The data - which identifies customers of the smut site, exposing them to potential embarrassment as a result - might also be used in …

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  1. Jolyon Smith
    Paris Hilton

    "The main YouPorn.com site appears to be operating as normal" ...

    ... something that was verified only in the interests of journalistic integrity, obviously. ;)

    Paris... doesn't need explaining really, I'm sure.

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    1. Bluemerlin
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      Re: "The main YouPorn.com site appears to be operating as normal" ...

      I presume the investigation was thorough, and the majority of the site was verified as working

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      1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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        Devil

        One can never be too careful. I'm going to go and watch every one of their videos to make sure.

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  2. ACx

    Every one too busy to comment?

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  3. DrXym

    Dumb dumbs

    You never ever log passwords or other sensitive identifiable data in a log file. Not even when full debug is enabled. The reason for that has just been demonstrated.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Dumb dumbs

      You never logon/register with something that might be dodgy with your main email account, dummy accounts all the way surely?

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      1. frank ly
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        Re: Re: Dumb dumbs

        Thank goodness for Yahoo disposable email addresses.

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      2. LaeMing
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        Happy

        Thank goodness!

        Thank goodness my ISP lets me set up and destroy email accounts to my heart's content. Limited to 30 concurrently, as long as they aren't already in use at the time by other users (easy for random string names). I haven't even looked at the hower-many-hundred I get with my actual domain hosting.

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        1. DrXym
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          Re: Thank goodness!

          Mailinator would work for throwaway addresses too. I assume for a porno site you'd never ever want to interact with these people beyond that initial registration so it would be perfect.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I thought the article was about Chatroulette from the title.

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  5. steve876
    Gimp

    Infinte Disposable Email

    Why create email addresses with Yahoo, when there are several disposable email sites that create mailboxes on the fly, meaning you have an infinite number of email addresses for sign-up purposes!? Shame the 'educational' sites that give 'sign-up for 30 free minutes' have now cottoned on!!

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    1. Ralph B
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      Re: Infinte Disposable Email

      You need 30 minutes?

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      1. DrXym
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        Re: Re: Infinte Disposable Email

        Mailinator runs a bunch of alternate domains. I reckon most sites wouldn't know to block all of them.

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  6. Crisp
    Paris Hilton

    Embarrassed about visiting a porn site

    Because it's not like y'know, EVERYBODY does it!

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  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Undetected?

    Unreported for years - yes.

    Undetected? Who knows?

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