On Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:20 PM, jtd 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. > > I only want to know if it is really possible for some experts to crack gmail and facebook accounts without access to the users' machines. I don't want to know the actual method of the same. I feel that people are just bluffing to create an impression but those who I come across say they know friends who actually demonstrated it on their friends' accounts. Haven't yet come across a cracker otherwise I would have observed him.
-- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
