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2012-08-08 Thread David J Brooks
I have an older cell phone ( Nokia 2008)but it will do text messaging, is this ok,?? Dave On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: If there’s anyone reading this who uses gmail, and whose quality-of-life would be damaged if their account got hacked or deleted,

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2012-08-08 Thread Igor Roshchin
Hi All: While 2-factor authentication is indeed more secure, it is not a panacea. It would be a big mistake to set it up and think that you are safe from now on. (That's in part a response to Tim's question if he should worry.) Rather, one should be always thoughtful of how their digital

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2012-08-08 Thread John Sessoms
From: steve harley on 2012-08-07 19:42 John Sessoms wrote I keep getting emails from various subsidiaries of Gawker telling me I need to reset my password because their site got hacked. I don't have a Gawker account, so I'm not going to reset the password. are you sure you know all the

Re: OT - Cloudy in iCloud - when you entrust your digital live to ...

2012-08-08 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-08 5:41 David J Brooks wrote I have an older cell phone ( Nokia 2008)but it will do text messaging, is this ok,?? it would work for 2-factor authentication the problem i have with using text messaging is that i pay 20 cents for every message (extortion by ATT); i have had Google

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2012-08-08 Thread Tim Bray
Yep, it’ll work fine. -T On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:41 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I have an older cell phone ( Nokia 2008)but it will do text messaging, is this ok,?? Dave On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: If there’s anyone reading this

OT - Cloudy in iCloud - when you entrust your digital live to ...

2012-08-07 Thread Igor Roshchin
I know that many PDMLers are very conservative in how they store their files and do the backups, not just blindly living in the clouds. But for those who are not, - this might be a good wake-up call: If entrust your digital live to the clouds you may experience some severe storms:

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2012-08-07 Thread Tim Bray
If there’s anyone reading this who uses gmail, and whose quality-of-life would be damaged if their account got hacked or deleted, please go turn on 2-factor authentication. It’s easy, it’s free, and the extra inconvenience is trivial. I wrote about this today: http://goo.gl/qLmav On Tue, Aug 7,

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2012-08-07 Thread Chris Mitchell
On 7 August 2012 21:30, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: If there’s anyone reading this who uses gmail, and whose quality-of-life would be damaged if their account got hacked or deleted, please go turn on 2-factor authentication. It’s easy, it’s free, and the extra inconvenience is

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2012-08-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: Igor Roshchin I know that many PDMLers are very conservative in how they store their files and do the backups, not just blindly living in the clouds. But for those who are not, - this might be a good wake-up call: If entrust your digital live to the clouds you may experience some severe

Re: OT - Cloudy in iCloud - when you entrust your digital live to

2012-08-07 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-07 19:42 John Sessoms wrote I keep getting emails from various subsidiaries of Gawker telling me I need to reset my password because their site got hacked. I don't have a Gawker account, so I'm not going to reset the password. are you sure you know all the subsidiaries? see the