click here to see how its usedintitle:Bookmarks inurl:bookmarks.html "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder" "Add bookmarks to this folder to see them displayed on the Bookmarks Toolbar"
Essentially this lets you browse the bookmark backups that people have made to the web. Some people may know that their favorite links are saved online for them just in case. However much stuff I was able to find is quite revealing about a persons personality, indicating that they don't know its publicly accessible through a few Google hacks.
What's really interesting is that the descriptions are also carried over. I came by a page that had a list of email accounts this person used, in the description bar was the username and password in clear text. After hopping on a proxy or two, I decided to test and see if they were legit. Lo and Behold! Everything about this person's life could've been compromised by me, instead I sent him a email to what appears to be his primary email account from his secondary. Letting him know the dangers of publishing usernames and passwords to your computer.
Here's a censored image to prove it.
I censored all the usernames out with green boxes, and passwords with red.
While it is really interesting to me to see how it is that other people may think or what they might be doing in life, this is why I will never save any of my passwords onto my computer. Should this ever get into the hands of someone malicious a persons life could be destroyed. Just look at how many email accounts are there, one was obviously for business and the others all seem to be personal use. I'm sure after just a few more searches there would've been even more information about this person, perhaps a SSN or Paypal password. I guess this is why whenever I hear about my parents saving their passwords to their computer I slam my head against my desk and can't help but think they are absolutely not related to me.
Anyway take care everyone, I'll post again soon.
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