I wonder why so many off-topic posts. If you don't have anything useful to post for op, don't post! Please!
// Sorry for *this* offtopic post. Thanks. With regards, Shirish Padalkar On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:20 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 21:38:55 Rony wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 12:44 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves 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. > > > > Discussing security issues is not criminal. > > Dont be so sure. Cirumvention of preventive measures, aka "hacking" > including posting of exploits is a criminal offence. > > Recently someone was forced to withdraw a research paper at a > conference (in Europe afair) that disclosed a vulnerability. If you > disclose a vulnerability quite obviously you have to post an exploit, > so that others can verify your tall claims and close the hole. > But the product vendor choose to hide their head in the sand and > served a cease and detest notice. > > -- > Rgds > JTD > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
