To: Sequoyah101
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How can you know someone has not hacked mail and built a dummy site to capture passwords? All you can do is hope. If you're technically oriented, you can check the domain you're sent to, maybe do a WHOIS lookup, find out who does their DNS, etc. Even Windows machines still have the venerable "nslookup" program for checking DNS.
5 posted on
06/21/2016 8:16:45 PM PDT by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
Passwords are going to have to die and be replaced by biometric id or online will have to die.
Im not sure biometric wont be hacked somehow.
6 posted on
06/21/2016 8:25:34 PM PDT by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: dayglored
Im told a third party was hacked and a ton of passwords stolen. The thiefs are banging away at every place they can hit.
Wonder where they got the passwords? Anybody hear? Ive checked for news. Nobody is saying.
8 posted on
06/21/2016 8:42:45 PM PDT by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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