Bad Actors Rejoice: Purrito Is Kitten with Claws
September 1, 2020
The Internet has taught us many things about people, particularly tech geeks. Technology geeks love challenging themselves with hacking tricks, possess off base senses of humor, and love their fur babies. They particularly love cats.
A “purrito” is a term coined by the animal rescue community for tiny kittens swaddled in tiny blankets, ergo like burritos. It goes without saying that burritos are adorable.
It is also not surprising that potential bad actors, who love cats, would purloin the Purrito for an “ultra fast, minimalistic, encrypted command line paste-bin.” Purrito Bin even uses characters to make a tabby kitten face: (=???=).
Reading through the instructions for Purrito, the developer made it even cuter by calling the standard client “meow” and a companion client “purr.” Purrito Bin is a simple way to encrypt files :
“In a encrypted storage setting, the paste is encrypted before sending it to the server.
Now the server will only be used as a storage bin and even in case of a non-https connection, you are guaranteed that no one else will be able to read the data that you have sent.
How does it work?
Steps automatically done by the provided clients, on the client side:
• Randomly generate an encryption key.
• Encrypt your data using said key, the encrypted data is called the cipher.
• Send the cipher to PurritoBin and get a standard paste url as above, which will be converted to the form”
The concept of Purrito Bin is itself genius, but is it a good idea for it to be posted publicly where bad actors can use it?
Whitney Grace, September 1, 2020
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