Ben, if you did not intend to be disrespectful, you would have pulled my email address and responded directly to me instead of through the listserv.
You also made an ignorant and completely false statement about my "competence" regarding this issue. You are not the only one on this list who earns their livelihood in IS/IT. I would not have recommended Norm changing and hardening his password if there was not a good reason: http://tech-stew.com/post/2012/07/12/Yahoo-confirms-server-breach-and-400k-accounts-compromised.aspx "More than 400,000 Yahoo Voices accounts were stolen from their servers earlier this week and that data was posted online. Indications were the information has since been removed, but a direct link to the original source seems to still exist and is accessible whenever the load is low enough. The breach wasn't just credentials for Yahoo, but also Gmail, AOL, Comcast, Hotmail, MSN, SBC Global, BellSouth, Verizon and Live.com as well. The hackers responsible go by the name "D33D Company" whose website is registered out of Ukraine. They were quoted as saying they used SQL Injection to steal the passwords and apparently did this so they could show Yahoo how weak their software security was:" So, kindly take your head out of your dark and warm place and try to be polite. Stephen Petri -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Okopnik Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 12:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] A Hey (OH OH! Norm Hacked!) Oh, dear. Stephen... I don't mean to sound disrespectful, but please don't give advice in areas where you don't have competence. The above is simply pointless - it has absolutely nothing to do with passwords or anything else of that sort: Norm's email account is not in any way involved. The spammers simply used his address - like someone pretending to be you and borrowing money. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
