Friendster Password Hack
Ever since I posted about my Friendster Hack (where I scraped my Friendster network off the web site and displayed it graphically using TouchGraph), I’ve noticed that the top search terms that drive people to my little corner of the web are all interested in “Friendster,” “Hack,” “Password,” “How to hack frienster password”, and so on. Seeing as my original applet code wasn’t exactly what people wanted, I’ve decided to go ahead and do a friendster password hack. I’m crazy like that. I write code just because people want me to. And it’s 2:00 am and I can’t sleep, so this will help me sleep better.
Implementation details: It uses a heuristic. First it looks at your network of friends to collect keywords from their profiles. Then it generates combinations of these keywords and makes login attempts, recording the name/password combinations that work. It’s sorta like war-dialing from back in the day but with a few twists as I’m sure you’ll dig into once you download the source code. I was really suprised at how well this works, to tell you the truth.
To run it, just compile with
javac FriendsterPasswordHack.java
and run it with
java FriendsterPasswordHack [name] [password]
where [name] and [password] are your friendster name and password. This is required so that it can log in as you and collect the heuristic keywords from profiles in your network.
Enough leet hax0r speak. I’m sure you want to get right down to business and “HACK some FRIENDSTER PASSWORD.”
So here you go: FriendsterPasswordHack.java