Oh, by the way --
Posted on 09/18/2008 12:18:28 PM PDT by xzins
This isn't about some kind of boycott of Yahoo.
It's all about privacy.
I'm heading over to Yahoo to delete everything in my online account. If hacking is this easy, then something's bad broke. Not that I'm famous enough for anyone to want to invade my privacy...but who knows what some nutcase might find valuable.
Get out, get out, whoever you are.
FreeRepublic2 -- reconsider if Yahoo is a good place for a backup FR site.
It was not easily hacked. She used an easily identifiable personal question: Where did you and your husband meet?
It could still be hacked, of course, just as if someone REALLY want’s your car, they’re gonna get it.
On one of mine, the question is what was your first car. I have a very specific answer, right down to the transmission. It is still hackable, of course, but ups the bar.
My motto, regarding my car, is that the last time I locked my car, not only was my tape deck stolen but my window was boke too.
broke = broken.
or, be done broked.
“It was hacked that easily because she used a poor password. It wasn’t a brute force attack so much as the perp researching her and putting together potential password combinations”
My understanding is that the hacker enabled Yahoo’s password retrieval function by jamming her mailbox. He/she/they had enough personal info (publicly available) to let the Yahoo function allow them to create a new password.
If I am wrong, please correct me.
Use number and letters both caps an lowercase, and if possible something like a $ # etc in there somewhere. Give 10 characters total and let em try to break that
Hey, X, ya know, it really doesn’t matter to me how much protection she used in her email. The fact of the matter is that it was HER email, and nobody should be looking at it. Period. It is the same as somebody looking through your mail, your garbage, your medicine cabinet... it’s personal stuff that they do not belong looking into. It’s NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS!!!!!
There, glad to get that off my chest :>)
I have some sort of Yahoo account, because I use the Yahoo groups.
I have NEVER sent a single piece of e-mail from there. I probably received one or two, but I wouldn’t know because I’ve never looked.
I use a provider-based e-mail for my REAL world work, and some hotmail accounts for my blogging and registration stuff. I wouldn’t care if the hotmail got hacked. I would be surprised if my other e-mail got hacked.
Won’t matter if the e-mail account will just give you a free reset for answering stupid questions from anywhere.
Especially if you use real personal information for your question’s answers.
I do use questions and answers, but no matter how much someone knew about me, they’d never guess the answers to my questions.
Anything on the net can be hacked. That’s why I don’t have my personal information online except address and phone number which anyone could get anyway.
If people want to hack meaningless chit chat and expose it, be my guest. I’ll survive the examination.
Just one more reason why I always advise against using a web-hosted email service for anything besides junk. I’m no genius, but I at least know that much.
I am email you sending daily about medicines and rollex watches and never you answer me why?
And I’m glad you did.
However, I don’t believe that yahoo is a safe place. I wonder if their hands are clean.
I worry about those who have something to lose.
That's incorrect. The hacker never did discover her original password.
He changed it with the "Forgot your Password" assistance, by doing a little research to the stock questions Yahoo provides for that, and trying different combinations of answers.
This had nothing to do with poor password selection, and everything to do with poor security on Yahoo accounts.
Check out Michelle Malkin's blog for details.
Oh, by the way --
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
That just might be obstruction of justice...
I know how many people it takes to keep a secret: one.
I use yahoo mail. It is the throw away addy I use when registering at sleazy forums. It is the spam magnet address I use.
Gmail is used for some other purposes.
My ISP address is ONLY for family or close friends.
Bottom line, if someone hacked into my yahoo mail they would see a few hundred spams and not much else. Why should I worry about that?
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