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Nov 24, 2005

The Final Countdown - "hacking" Rapidshare · by Rafi Kam

I’ve been a fan of the magazine 2600 (The Hacker Quarterly) for many years now. They’re a great source of information on how systems work and under what situations they don’t work. The letters and features in the mag are also guaranteed to entertain. I also respect the way they take a strong stand on the issues they deem most important – namely protecting people’s constitutional rights to free speech and privacy. As much as they are a magazine about technology they are also a watchdog against powerful bodies who abuse technology and/or the law.

But this post isn’t about ideals and protecting individuals from corporate or government abuses. It’s about the other side…. showing what types of things can be done with just a little creativity. This was inspired from an article I saw in 2600 which is why I salute them here first. The trick is sort of lame but users of RapidShare might find it useful in that it will save them 45 seconds each time they use it.

A simple trick
Ok so I was paging through the magazine’s Autumn issue at a bookstore the other day. There was an article titled “Javascript Injections” in which the author described how easy it is to run javascript commands on a web page you have open in your browser window. So for instance on sites that pass data in hidden html form fields you could use javascript entered into the web address field of your browser to change the values being passed. The author showed how this could be used for a hypothetical abuse of a shopping cart system. I liked this technique but I had something much less thieving in mind for it.

RapidShare is a file sharing site most of you are probably familiar with. Like most file sharing sites it relies on ad revenue or getting the customer to pay for the premium version. An advantage it has over YouSendIt is that files you upload to RapidShare don’t disappear after a week or after 25 downloads. But there are some disadvantages to the free version – for one thing it makes you wait 45 seconds before you can download a file.

It was pretty clear from the page that some kind of javascript ran the timer so I checked out the source code. There’s a simple loop in the javascript code that controls when the link can be displayed. A variable c counts down from 45 to 0. Once it gets to 0 the link can be displayed.

So all you have to do to make the link show from the free download page with the timer on it is enter javascript:void(c=0) into your web address field on your browser (in place of the RapidShare url).

I can already hear your response. “If I am going to go through the trouble of typing in that crap I may as well just wait the 45 seconds.” That’s a good point… but why type it in when you can bookmark it? Just edit a bookmark to point to the location javascript:void(c=0)

Now when you hit the timer page on RapidShare just click on that bookmark. Bung bung. Instant presto link.

Comments for "The Final Countdown - "hacking" Rapidshare"

  1. Sounds like a job for greasemonkey to automate it completely, yesno?
    — Beek    Nov 24, 10:17 PM   
  2. Yes, good point.

    I have to get up-to-date on firefox extensions. That’s something I haven’t been taking advantage of at all.
    — Rafi    Nov 24, 10:19 PM   
  3. I kept getting 0 byte files when I tried this.
    — David    Nov 28, 04:51 PM   
  4. Yeah unfortunately I think they changed something over the past few days. When I have a chance I’ll see if I can find a new way.
    — rafi    Nov 28, 05:27 PM   

  5. how can i download a file from rapidshare as a premium acc?? thnx in advance!!


    — dang nguyen    Jan 25, 01:13 AM   

  6. I think the best idea is for everyone to just stop using rapidshare. It sucks. It’s ridiculous the limitations it puts on you and there are new free file uploading services becoming available all the time.


    — Rafi    Jan 25, 01:58 AM   

  7. i want to download


    — vijay    Mar 11, 12:43 PM   

  8. how to get premium acc


    — vijay    Mar 11, 12:45 PM   

  9. hello

    i’m need the free premium acc

    because the javascript is not work with my pc

    thank you


    — mohammed    May 19, 12:03 PM   

  10. I have created an automated program that works in Saudi Arabia.

    You can not stop the timer thing because the server knows the time the page was served and comes up with a message box in german.

    Translated it says ‘Javascript Error?’

    Any how good luck for downloading from this crazy site!


    — Ali    Jul 3, 09:22 AM   

  11. This is all bullshit. Instead of telling people to type this javascript crap, first try it. Bloody hell, you hear from one ear, and write this crap. I am sick and tired of people posting other people messages, stating oh..do this and this will clear the timer, and do this it will clear the download limit. There is no way to do that instead of buying a permium account you morons.


    — Don't Bull shit the Bullshiter    Jul 12, 01:00 AM   

  12. Asshole, I didn’t hear anything… I made this trick based on a diff javascript void hack I had read about. It worked fine in November when I created it. As I said in comment 4 they changed the page’s code a few days later.


    — Rafi    Jul 12, 01:34 AM   

  13. I CAM TO OSCURE RAP NERD SITE TO HOW TO GET PREMYUM DONLODE PLZ HLP!

    fucking idiots.


    — agent b    Jul 12, 03:37 AM   

  14. sorry, WHAT?


    — kmhgfdg    Jul 12, 05:19 PM   

  15. use megaupload, much better with no dl limit.


    — Asswipe44    Aug 9, 09:49 PM   

  16. WOW!....THAT’S GREAT….
    IT’S AMIEZING….....IT’S REALLY WORK…........


    — bluebire    Aug 25, 11:41 AM   

  17. ... but not work on LAN :( Wezzz…


    — CatRoot    Sep 11, 11:04 AM   

  18. ok


    — Thomax    Sep 16, 07:46 PM   

  19. I want to download from rapidshare.de, so I need a premium account. Who can help me!

    Thank you very much!
    — Dang    Oct 31, 05:06 AM   

  20. ME NEED PRIMO ACOUNT TO DOWNLOOAD SONGS HELP HELP HELP SEND ME INFORMATION THANX YOU


    — nesta    Oct 31, 10:11 PM   

  21. Pls I want to have a premium acc. Please help me!


    — sven    Nov 11, 10:51 AM   

  22. i tried everything i get my hands on and nothin seems to work. What i’m going to try and do is to hook up with one of the girls working with rapid share. Maybe the owner’s cousin. i know her.


    — escobar    Nov 11, 01:07 PM   

  23. there is no way to hack rapid share u all assholes event if u bye a rapit acc because the admins of rapid de and com are real hackers this is just to got known better who they are ok


    — PabloEscobar    Jan 17, 07:53 PM   

  24. Here are some logins but DONT change the password
    http://rapidshare.com/files/15525804/rapidshare_premium_ac_2k7.rar


    — Peter    Feb 8, 11:51 AM   

  25. this really works! Rapidshare Downloads without the entrance of the key number. Awesome program! YA’ll need this one.

    http://rapidshare.com/files/19057165/Rapid_5.9.rar


    — ben    Mar 2, 02:16 PM   

  26. use rapidcheck to get the premium account, or else u can use this checker to check the availability of the account for march 2007. download now. dont know how long it will still working, who knows u might get lucky today.:

    http://rapidshare.com/files/19811163/March_07.rar


    — simoncoward    Mar 7, 05:14 AM