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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT; discostu

Most likely the “hack” that discostu was talking about was not how your ebay account was compromised. There are lots of scams out there for ebay. Your ebay password should be one of your stronger ones - something like J$us#lz4E1. You’d be suprised at the number of ebay passwords that are simply brute-forced because they suck so badly. As I mentioned in an earlier post, all you have to do to make it so that any schlub who logs on to your computer can’t see your password is to use the ‘master password’ feature of firefox. I stronly recommend that this password be a really good one (mine is 20+ characters). You’ll have to enter it at least once per session, which sounds like a hassle, and it is, but you’ll be suprised at how fast you will get at typing it after entering it a bunch. I think you’ll also have to enter it if you want to see the passwords in the FF password tool. It’s fairly simple, and it is hardly Mozilla’s fault if people don’t avail themselves of the options they provide to protect your security.


46 posted on 07/01/2010 7:40:46 PM PDT by zeugma (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam)
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To: zeugma
Followup to my last post: From Mozillazine -  Master Passwords
47 posted on 07/01/2010 8:04:38 PM PDT by zeugma (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam)
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