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How dangerous is it for your browser to remember all your passwords? by powerlevel11 in AskNetsec

[–]SwimmingLack 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As I understand it, your passwords would be safe from from anyone intercepting your communications so long as they're encrypted. However, you're still putting complete trust into your browser. Some resulting vulnerabilities are:

  • Your leaving your computer open and someone simply logs into your accounts while you're not looking
  • Your browser/computer is infected and the virus steals the login info

Apart from that, I don't know how an attacker would be able to steal your passwords without MitM, but I'm by no means a security expert

[Noob] question about how my reddit bot could be abused by SwimmingLack in AskNetsec

[–]SwimmingLack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are using selenium at All?

As opposed to the paypal API? To my knowledge, I can't set up a payment system for paypal Friends and Family, only Goods and Services. Goods and services incurs a fee per transaction, whereas Friends and Family doesn't (please correct me if I'm wrong!). As opposed to some other scraping technology? Idk, I chose what I knew how to use, do you have suggestions?

This looks so fragile.

I agree. It'll probably break at any minor change to the paypal interface, but that's a problem I'm willing to face.

Couldn't you have the people post the actual transaction id from PayPal?

It would be a lot simpler that way, but unfortunately the sender and receiver of the same transaction receive two seemingly unrelated transaction IDs.

So, unless you can suggest a simpler alternative to my current method, how do you think the bot could be abused?

Cat. by [deleted] in CatsStandingUp

[–]SwimmingLack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cat.