Pastebin adds ‘Burn After Read’ and ‘Password Protected Pastes’ to the dismay of the infosec community

From zdnet.com

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Pastebin, the most popular website where users can share small snippets of text, has added two new features today that cyber-security researchers believe are going to be widely and wildly abused by malware operators.

Named “Burn After Read” and “Password Protected Pastes,” the two new features allow Pastebin users to create pastes (pieces of text) that expire after a single read or pastes that are protected by a password.

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