9 Warning Signs for Any Internet User

August 31, 2009 at 8:03 am (Web)
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Warning Signs for Any Internet User

Warning Signs for Any Internet User

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The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time

August 28, 2009 at 11:39 am (Web)
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From the moment people started using passwords, it didn’t take long to realize how many people picked the very same passwords over and over. Even the way people misspell words is consistent. In fact, people are so predictable that most hackers make use of lists of common passwords just like these. To give you some insight into how predictable humans are, the following is a list of the 500 most common passwords. If you see your password on this list, please change it immediately. Keep in mind that every password listed here has been used by at least hundreds if not thousands of other people.

There are some interesting passwords on this list that show how people try to be clever, but even human cleverness is predictable. For example, look at these passwords that I found interesting:

ncc1701 The ship number for the Starship Enterprise
thx1138 The name of George Lucas’s first movie, a 1971 remake of an earlier student project

qazwsx Follows a simple pattern when typed on a typical keyboard
666666 Six sixes
7777777 Seven sevens
ou812 The title of a 1988 Van Halen album

8675309 The number mentioned in the 1982 Tommy Tutone song. The song supposedly caused an epidemic of people dialing 867- 5309 and asking for “Jenny”

“…Approximately one out of every nine people uses at least one password on the list shown in Table 9.1! And one out of every 50 people uses one of the top 20 worst passwords..”

Lists the top 500 worst passwords of all time, not considering character case. Don’t blame me for the offensive words; you were the ones who picked these, not me.

NO Top 1-100 Top 101–200 Top 201–300 Top 301–400 Top 401–500
1 123456 porsche firebird prince rosebud
2 password guitar butter beach jaguar
3 12345678 chelsea united amateur great
4 1234 black turtle 7777777 cool
5 pussy diamond steelers muffin cooper
6 12345 nascar tiffany redsox 1313
7 dragon jackson zxcvbn star scorpio
8 qwerty cameron tomcat testing mountain
9 696969 654321 golf shannon madison
10 mustang computer bond007 murphy 987654
11 letmein amanda bear frank brazil
12 baseball wizard tiger hannah lauren
13 master xxxxxxxx doctor dave japan
14 michael money gateway eagle1 naked
15 football phoenix gators 11111 squirt
16 shadow mickey angel mother stars
17 monkey bailey junior nathan apple
18 abc123 knight thx1138 raiders alexis
19 pass iceman porno steve aaaa
20 fuckme tigers badboy forever bonnie
21 6969 purple debbie angela peaches
22 jordan andrea spider viper jasmine
23 harley horny melissa ou812 kevin
24 ranger dakota booger jake matt
25 iwantu aaaaaa 1212 lovers qwertyui
26 jennifer player flyers suckit danielle
27 hunter sunshine fish gregory beaver
28 fuck morgan porn buddy 4321
29 2000 starwars matrix whatever 4128
30 test boomer teens young runner
31 batman cowboys scooby nicholas swimming
32 trustno1 edward jason lucky dolphin
33 thomas charles walter helpme gordon
34 tigger girls cumshot jackie casper
35 robert booboo boston monica stupid
36 access coffee braves midnight shit
37 love xxxxxx yankee college saturn
38 buster bulldog lover baby gemini
39 1234567 ncc1701 barney cunt apples
40 soccer rabbit victor brian august
41 hockey peanut tucker mark 3333
42 killer john princess startrek canada
43 george johnny mercedes sierra blazer
44 sexy gandalf 5150 leather cumming
45 andrew spanky doggie 232323 hunting
46 charlie winter zzzzzz 4444 kitty
47 superman brandy gunner beavis rainbow
48 asshole compaq horney bigcock 112233
49 fuckyou carlos bubba happy arthur
50 dallas tennis 2112 sophie cream
51 jessica james fred ladies calvin
52 panties mike johnson naughty shaved
53 pepper brandon xxxxx giants surfer
54 1111 fender tits booty samson
55 austin anthony member blonde kelly
56 william blowme boobs fucked paul
57 daniel ferrari donald golden mine
58 golfer cookie bigdaddy 0 king
59 summer chicken bronco fire racing
60 heather maverick penis sandra 5555
61 hammer chicago voyager pookie eagle
62 yankees joseph rangers packers hentai
63 joshua diablo birdie einstein newyork
64 maggie sexsex trouble dolphins little
65 biteme hardcore white 0 redwings
66 enter 666666 topgun chevy smith
67 ashley willie bigtits winston sticky
68 thunder welcome bitches warrior cocacola
69 cowboy chris green sammy animal
70 silver panther super slut broncos
71 richard yamaha qazwsx 8675309 private
72 fucker justin magic zxcvbnm skippy
73 orange banana lakers nipples marvin
74 merlin driver rachel power blondes
75 michelle marine slayer victoria enjoy
76 corvette angels scott asdfgh girl
77 bigdog fishing 2222 vagina apollo
78 cheese david asdf toyota parker
79 matthew maddog video travis qwert
80 121212 hooters london hotdog time
81 patrick wilson 7777 paris sydney
82 martin butthead marlboro rock women
83 freedom dennis srinivas xxxx voodoo
84 ginger fucking internet extreme magnum
85 blowjob captain action redskins juice
86 nicole bigdick carter erotic abgrtyu
87 sparky chester jasper dirty 777777
88 yellow smokey monster ford dreams
89 camaro xavier teresa freddy maxwell
90 secret steven jeremy arsenal music
91 dick viking 11111111 access14 rush2112
92 falcon snoopy bill wolf russia
93 taylor blue crystal nipple scorpion
94 111111 eagles peter iloveyou rebecca
95 131313 winner pussies alex tester
96 123123 samantha cock florida mistress
97 bitch house beer eric phantom
98 hello miller rocket legend billy
99 scooter flower theman movie 6666
100 please jack oliver success albert

Source: Perfect Passwords, Mark Burnett 2005

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5 ways to write horribly ugly php code

August 19, 2009 at 6:06 am (PHP)
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Editors note:Yes, this post is just a little joke. Sometimes us developers just need to vent a little bit. Please don’t actually follow the advice in this post, kittens will die if you do.

Writing quality code these days is over rated. Why learn how to write proper php and coding when you can pick up a few tutorials online and start churning out security prone vomit code? Don’t let the professional developers fool you, the only reason they don’t write crappy code is because they have nothing better to do with their time! You have places to be don’t you? So why the hell would you spend so much time learning how to properly use php‽ It’s insane!

1. Don’t worry about errors, supress them!
Headers already sent? Screw you computer! I’ll tell you about my headers and errors! Instead of turning on error reporting while in development, just turn it off completely. This way you probably won’t have to worry about any annoying errors or things of that nature. If you do happen to get one of those annoying errors, simple supress is with the @ suppressor. Stick that in front of every function call and your code should have no errors at all!

If you still can’t figure out why you are getting errors, try rearranging the order of your code, putting things and function calls into different conditional statements. Don’t worry about any of the logic getting screwed up, someone else can fix that.

2. Use indecipherable variable and function names
Why spend and waste extra time making up and writing function and variable names when you can get right to the point? It’s not like anyone but you will ever read your code, and hell, you will surely remember!

Instead of something like this:

<?php
$user_name = try_user_login();//generic function call
?>

Try something like this:

<?
$a = z();//generic function call
?>

Notice that we also saved some space by using short tags! Hell yea! Which brings me to my next point…

3. Use server specific settings
Always user short tags when writing with php. It doesn’t matter if it might not work on some poor souls server without changing some configuration file, they’re too dumb to know that short tags are teh best! Also be sure to never use the php echo function, instead use the short echo tags like so:

<?=$narwhalBaconsMidnight; ?>

4.Don’t comment anything!
Why waste time explaining why a certain class or method does what it does? Hell, we don’t even care what a class is! Save your time by not commenting anything, if someone else can’t figure out what you were trying to do, it’s not your fault, they’re just ignorant.

5. Drop those curly brackets!
Stop wasting so much space and so many lines when your writing php. Technically, the curly braces aren’t required for control structures, so there must not even be any point to them! Get rid of them now!

<?php
if($bacon === true)
    $vegan = false;
    generic_function_call();//May or may not get called, it's more fun that way!
?>

Follow these steps and you are on your way to losing your job and becoming an art major. Best of luck!

Author: Drew Douglass

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Dynamically Change Width and Height in embed code

August 14, 2009 at 2:31 pm (Regex)
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In a recent project I was working on we had to allow the client to embed videos within the site. This had to be done using an easy-to-use customized CMS. The thought is that they can take the embed code right off the YouTube site and save it to the DB for use throughout the site.

YouTube’s default dimensions for a video are 480 x 295, but what if you need a different size of video? Obviously we don’t want to have the client fiddling around with the embed code changing the width and height attributes; so this is where I turned to using regular expressions in PHP. Take a look!

Let’s pretend the following source is what we would like to modify and it is stored in a $youtube variable:

$youtube = <<<EOF
<object width="480" height="295">
<param name="movie"
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xq-HRHMEmfg&hl=en&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xq-HRHMEmfg&hl=en&fs=1"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed>
</object>
EOF;

Fixing the Problem

How can we change the width and height attributes throughout this code? There are probably numerous ways, but none quite as easy as using regular expressions. If you are unfamiliar with the basics of regular expressions I suggest checking out Regular-Expressions.info.

A PHP function that makes use of regular expressions is “preg_replace”. It allows you to use regular expressions to replace whatever matches. More details on the function can be found at PHP.NET

Creating The Function

We will be creating a function that allows you to resize any mark-up and not just YouTube videos. It will allow you to modify an elements width and height attributes as well as changes any inline styling. Below is what we get:


function resizeMarkup($markup, $dimensions)
{
$w = $dimensions['width'];
$h = $dimensions['height'];

$patterns = array();
$replacements = array();
if( !empty($w) )
{
$patterns[] = '/width="([0-9]+)"/';
$patterns[] = '/width:([0-9]+)/';

$replacements[] = 'width="'.$w.'"';
$replacements[] = 'width:'.$w;
}

if( !empty($h) )
{
$patterns[] = '/height="([0-9]+)"/';
$patterns[] = '/height:([0-9]+)/';

$replacements[] = 'height="'.$h.'"';
$replacements[] = 'height:'.$h;
}

return preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $markup);
}

The most difficult part of the above to understand is probably the ([0-9]+) part. Let me break it down:

  1. () – wrap the value that we want to replace
  2. [0-9] – any number between and including 0 and 9
  3. + – one or more occurrences

Using the function:

We can then dynamically change the size based on the query string (?width=228&height=178)

$width = intval($_GET['width']);
$height = intval($_GET['height']);

$youtube = resizeMarkup($youtube, array(
'width'=>$width,
'height'=>$height
));
echo $youtube;

Another little feature I should quickly point out is that you don’t have to pass both height and width. For example if you want a div to dynamically change its width but stay a fixed height (YouTube caption), you can do the following:


$width = intval($_GET['width']);

$caption = <<<EOF
<div style="background:#F8EBD7;border:1px solid
444;text-align:center;width:500px;height:50px;">
commandN Episode #170
</div>
EOF;

$caption = resizeMarkup($caption, array(
'width'=>$width
));
echo $caption;

In this case, the div will remain 50px high but its width will be changed by the query string (?width=228)

Conclusion

We now have a re-usable function that allows us to use many different sizes of the same YouTube clip without making the client tinker with any code!

Author: Brenley Dueck

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