Creating usernames using Google and Linkedin

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

I like that, do you mind if I build this into CeWL?

Robin

2009/6/12 Jason Wood <tadaka at gmail.com>:
> Hey all,
> I was messing with something today and remembered episode 129 had a segment
> on using a target company's website to generate passwords.? I tried it out
> and with a bit tweaking it worked great.? But I also wanted a username list
> that was targeted for the company.? I took a twist on creating passwords and
> did some queries on Google such as "site:linkedin.com CompanyName".? In my
> case, I found 26 pages of search results containing almost nothing but
> people's full names.
>
> I found a python script that pdp at gnucitizen had written to pull google
> search results.? I did some hacking on it and came up with a script to
> create a list of usernames using the targeted search results.? It creates
> the basic variations of first initial, last name and firstname, last
> initial.? I'm not a python scripter, so if you have any suggestions on
> improvements please let me know.? I've got it dialed down to only take the
> first page's results.? You can download it at
> http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com/downloads/usernameGen.txt
>
> The only real defense I can think of against this is to make sure usernames
> at your organization are not based on their names.? I know from experience
> that people will absolutely HATE it, but it would work.
>
> Any how, hopefully this is useful to someone else.
>
> Jason
>
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