Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-26 Thread Jostein Øksne
It's almost amazing how unamazed I am, Mark :-) Jostein Den 25. september 2016 21.45.16 CEST, skrev Mark Roberts : >Jostein Øksne wrote: > >>Den 25. september 2016 15.33.48 CEST, skrev Mark Roberts >: >>>John wrote: >>> Saw the news

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread Brian Walters
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016, at 09:44 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:54 PM, John wrote: > > How many online accounts do you have that require a password? > > > > If you create a strong password for each of them, how do you keep track > > of them & remember

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
Bill wrote: >There are a lot of times where it really doesn't much matter if one has >the same password across multiple sites. Photograph chatrooms such as >dpreview and pentax forums are two such examples. Who the hell cares if >they get hacked on those sites? Yep. That works as long as you

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:54 PM, John wrote: > How many online accounts do you have that require a password? > > If you create a strong password for each of them, how do you keep track > of them & remember what they are? I have a book with each site and password Its a

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread Mark C
On 9/25/2016 3:45 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: You'd be amazed how many people don't. (Wait. No, you wouldn't.) You'd also be amazed how many people use the same password on multiple sites. (No, you wouldn't be amazed at that either.) IMO - one of the dangers of the Yahoo hack is that the

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread Jostein Øksne
Lol. I am certainly not going to explain my scheme. Feel free to share yours. Jostein Den 25. september 2016 20.54.45 CEST, skrev John : >How many online accounts do you have that require a password? > >If you create a strong password for each of them, how do you keep

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread Bill
On 9/25/2016 1:45 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Jostein Øksne wrote: Den 25. september 2016 15.33.48 CEST, skrev Mark Roberts : John wrote: Saw the news story a few minutes ago. Apparently it happened in 2014, "state sponsored hackers", but Yahoo didn't find it until

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread Larry Colen
John wrote: How many online accounts do you have that require a password? If you create a strong password for each of them, how do you keep track of them & remember what they are? One trick that a lot of people do is to use a two part password. Have one strong password that you can

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
Jostein Øksne wrote: >Den 25. september 2016 15.33.48 CEST, skrev Mark Roberts >: >>John wrote: >> >>>Saw the news story a few minutes ago. >>> >>>Apparently it happened in 2014, "state sponsored hackers", but Yahoo >>>didn't find it until August this year. I can't

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread John
How many online accounts do you have that require a password? If you create a strong password for each of them, how do you keep track of them & remember what they are? On 9/25/2016 11:26 AM, Jostein Øksne wrote: So... Two years without changing passwords? Hmmm... ;-) Den 25. september 2016

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread Jostein Øksne
So... Two years without changing passwords? Hmmm... ;-) Den 25. september 2016 15.33.48 CEST, skrev Mark Roberts : >John wrote: > >>Saw the news story a few minutes ago. >> >>Apparently it happened in 2014, "state sponsored hackers", but Yahoo >>didn't find it until

Re: OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
John wrote: >Saw the news story a few minutes ago. > >Apparently it happened in 2014, "state sponsored hackers", but Yahoo >didn't find it until August this year. I can't tell if they got any of >my information or not, but I went ahead and changed my password. The >only thing I used it for was a

OT: Yahoo got hacked

2016-09-22 Thread John
Saw the news story a few minutes ago. Apparently it happened in 2014, "state sponsored hackers", but Yahoo didn't find it until August this year. I can't tell if they got any of my information or not, but I went ahead and changed my password. The only thing I used it for was a backup of PDML in