[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:
> > 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.

Gerard,

You know, it would be very refreshing if occasionally you might admit
that you read something wrong (as you clearly did with the original
email in this topic), rather than responding with rude name-calling and
a know-it-all attitude.

You are clearly very knowledgeable, but the way you express some of
your answers, and the way you decree that your way is the only way (eg,
top-posting vs bottom-posting) has made reading the emails to this list
a lot less pleasant for me.

You could just as easily express your views and answers to questions
using polite language as you can using rude language. I have refrained
from saying anything up till now, but it is starting to bother me
enough that I felt I had to mention it.

Just my two cents worth.

~Judie