Found the error Not allowed to load local resource: file:///etc/passwd while looking at infosec.pub’s communities page. There’s a community called “ignore me” that adds a few image tags trying to steal your passwd file.

You have to be extremely poorly configured for this to work, but the red flags you see should keep you on your toes for the red flags you don’t.

  • Rooster@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    If you ran your browser as root and configured your browser to load local resources on non-local domains maybe. I think you can do that in chrome://flags but you have to explicitly list the domains allowed to do it.

    I’m hoping this is just a bad joke.

      • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Are you sure? What do you get when you run $ cat /etc/passwd in terminal? Just paste the results here 😇

        Edit: to anyone reading this on the future, don’t actually do this, it was a joke