On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Easwar Hariharan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tuesday 13 July 2010 07:19:22 Rony wrote: >> > How much of this is actually true and how easy is it to crack gmail and >> > facebook accounts without the user's machine being involved? >> > >> >> I would suggest you take this discussion offlist. Cracking is criminal >> activity >> and that should not be discussed here. >> > > Beg to disagree. OP is not asking about methods and techniques for cracking. > He is IMHO, asking about the likelihood of such attacks compromising the > accounts without need of access to the said persons (victims?) machine. This > can very well lead to an estimation of whether our own(as in members of this > list) security measures should be stepped up. > > Regards, > Easwar > Registered Linux user #442065
+1. The list has a weird practice of sending membership passwords in plaintext unless turned off. Regards, Mohan S N -- Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. -- J. R. R. Tolkien -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
