Isaac Abraham said,
>>> Hmmmm.... I suppose if you just change your ISPs password, ok. But why
>>> should I care if people (somehow) could dial up via my username/password?
>>So if someone logged into your account and used it for hacking you
>>wouldn't mind the trouble it caused you? What if they used your
>>account to send illegal email (threatening, racist etc.) and the
>>police came knocking on your door?
> My password for my email and dial up accounts are different, oddly enough.
So if someone had your dialup password they could do all of the
above. If they had your email password they could read your private
mail.
It would be totally trivial to write a script that read a list of
logon/password pairs, connected to each mailbox, downloaded the mail
(leaving it on the server so you didn't know anything was wrong) and
then scanned the downloaded file for key phrases, like passwords,
credit card numbers etc.
Neil
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