Creating usernames using Google and Linkedin

[gbugbear at gmail.com (Tim Mugherini)]

Very CeWL (cool)!

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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