How I hacked a gmail account

5 points by tawrahim 9 years ago | 7 comments

mtgx 9 years ago |

> After my first attempt, Google asked me to provide them with my phone number so that they could send me a security code to login.

What? Like any number? His number? Google doesn't even verify if it's the Gmail owner's phone number? This can't be right.

blakep 9 years ago | |

Agreed, I think the title is probably incognito click bait for this guy's app. I find little value in this article.

tawrahim 9 years ago | | |

@Author here - value is that don't commit sensitive data like email and password into your public github repo. Consider using an ENV variable

redxblood 9 years ago |

That same search he did gives

"We could not perform this search

Must include at least one user, organization, or repository"

Is this guy lying?

tawrahim 9 years ago | |

To the left, click on code and you are going to see all the results

redxblood 9 years ago | | |

I was in "best match" in the filters, my bad