[Gmail-Users] Re: Security

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:02:09 -0000, "Judie" <JudieLC@gmail.com>
Subject: [Gmail-Users] Re: Security
Wrote these words of wisdom:

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>
> Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:18:37 -0000, "Sid" <tryzbiak@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [GMusers] Security
> > Wrote these words of wisdom:
> >
> > >
> > > I just loged into gmail with what I thought was my gmail name. It
> > > wasn't my account but I answered the question correctly as to my
> > > favorite car by accident and it let me change the password. Usually,
> > > programs will send you the password to another e-mail account.
> > >
> > > I got in on one try.
> > >
> > > Any comments?
> >
> >
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> > On 12/8/2005 5:00:07 AM Gerard Seibert Replied:
> >
> > Yes, that serves the moron who used a simple password right. Any
> > password that does not include a series of letters in mixed case as well
> > as numbers is rather insecure. A good cracker will have no problem
> > deciphering the password in short order.
>
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> If I am reading the original email correctly, the password originally
> chosen had nothing to do with the original writer getting into someone
> else's account. He said he guessed the answer to the secret question to
> get into the account and then changed the password.
>
> So the problem wasn't having a password that was too easy, but a secret
> question answer that was too easy. When I pick a secret question and
> answer, I always pick something that only I know and that would be
> really hard to guess (except maybe by my husband).

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On 12/9/2005 1:29:15 PM Gerard Seibert Replied:

You can call it anything you like; password, secret question whatever,
the results are the same. The moron used something so easy any idiot
could figure it out. I have been at sites where they want my favorite
pets name, or city of birth, what-have-you. When I am need to supply
that sort of information, I use Robo-Form to generate a useful phase,
such as this one: 47N316610702#8. This will take the average cracker a
good long time to break, and this is just a small phase.

By the way, the most commonly used password on the internet is: password.
Now, how dumb is that?

By the way, Fuzzy I am sure you are reading this. Perhaps now you
understand what I am referring to.

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Gerard Seibert
gerard.seibert@gmail.com

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