An idea..

[narf]

Hello,
I'm not sure if this is entirely appropriate for these forums but it's not an advert so i'm hoping i won't get flamed too much

This is a question to the WebMasters ( of Adult Websites ). I'm considering starting a service and i'm wondering if it would interest anyone. As you know username/password stealing and bruteforcing can be quite a big problem for adult websites. There are ways this is stopped ( scripts to kill accounts that have had logins from many I.Ps ) but i was considering another way.
A "spider" that monitors Internet Relay Chat and Forums ( the most common ways used to share stolen or bruteforced logins ) for logins posted to your site.

My current idea is you'd pay a monthly fee and this spider would report back to you any usernames and passwords it found for your website ( and you could delete/suspend these accounts ).

I haven't even begun this project and would like some feedback from webmasters as to weither you'd be interested in such a service ( or if one already exists that i've missed ).

Thanks.

[2HousePlague]

Sounds promising.

Let me know if you get it off the ground.

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[narf]

Thanks, i will

Is there little interest in this idea or is this forum predominantly for people who run TGPs, etc. ?

[Babaganoosh]

With already available password monitoring scripts, your service would be completely unnecessary. In fact, I know of a few paysite owners who intentionally "leak" passwords to password sites.

[narf]

AAh, fair enough. I didn't know simliar services existed, could you give me some links to these scripts perhaps?

Oh well..

[RicardoB]

Sounds very interesting.

Only problem I can see right off he bat would be that the spider would need access to the logins and password to compare against those posted on the forums.

That asks for a lot of trust from the paysite owner.

[lenny007]

narf - I think that does sound interesting. I would like to see something like that on the market.

Great Idea!

[narf]

Thanks for everyone's feedback

Originally posted by RicardoB
Only problem I can see right off he bat would be that the spider would need access to the logins and password to compare against those posted on the forums..

Not really, the spider would simply collect these logins. It could then test them ( try and use them to log in ) and if they worked it would report them to the site owner. I'm not totally familiar with the software run on these sites, but perhaps a plug-in could be written for them that allows the bot to have the accounts automatically suspended.