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Originally Posted by adultmobile
Ah yes http://www.ultrapasswords.com/ I remember... but those passwords was NOT really hacked... was fake free passwords, actually being promos agreed with programs, with Leo's affiliate id. I exchanged mails with Leo for http://www.myfreepaysite.com in ancient ages, he replied he needed real free content from programs to cooperate... so I think he never "stole" any password or content. He just sent a few "emails" in 2000-2002 and perhaps good boy after. Now let's not hate the rich, that's envoy. Mine was just an example to support my disagreement about 10+ years ago affiliates wasn't as spammy as today's. |
No, at any given time at least half the passwords on that site were absolutely 'legit' stolen accounts from unknowing webmasters. This is how he accumulated massive amounts of traffic to push towards his own sites.
I had some accounts posted there, had some acquaintances who did too - if that happened you really fucking hoped you had some sort of pw security or bandwidth throttle because the masses were on there immediately downloading your entire site 5000 times over. And bandwidth was not cheap in those days.
And of course IIRC, when anyone confronted Leo about this practice he got totally defensive and took the old route "It's for the webmasters' benefit, so you can see if your site's been compromised". Give me a fucking break.
It's not envy of the rich to dislike that dude, he was/is a scumbag.