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To: MindBender26
How does this happen? With all the supposed security, how do hackers get control of accounts on Twitter and elsewhere?

lousy passwords most likely

56 posted on 07/04/2011 4:19:13 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey

“Fair and balanced” Fox has liberals as well as conservatives on its staff. Possibly one of the more deranged liberals got access to Fox’s Twitter password.


60 posted on 07/04/2011 4:21:47 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: newzjunkey

Several studies have shown the most common passwords are:

password
123456
qwerty
abc123
letmein
monkey
myspace1
password1
link182
12345


63 posted on 07/04/2011 4:27:16 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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