On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2010/4/24 Mallikarjun <[email protected]>: > >> On second thoughts had some more questions > >> 1. What will google do with the mobile phone numbers (general question) > > > > > > I don't think this question is valid. Bcoz, Google has way more valuable > > information than your mobile number, like all your chats, e-mails, > browsing > > habits, and much more. I think you should be concerned about them rather > > than mobile numbers. Maximum one can do with mobile number is sell to > > spammers. > > true, i agree fully > > however its not like if a phone number appears in an email google can > just take it, in this case we are legally giving it to them. > > Yea, but I still I dont think it is of much use for them... > > >> > >> 2. Won't the folks cracking an account also start by changing the > >> recovery information, > > > > Mostly one can crack into your E-mail system via recovery options, unless > > you have obvious passwords like "password123". > > Once they crack into, you can do very little if cracker changes > password... > > but they wont do that. They want to spy what you do. > > > > My answer is "It depends on the cracker". > > so no really safe options, if i look at what all is in my gmall > already its quite easy for a cracker to just unplug me and become me, > absolutely scary, in fact i think i am going to start deleting mails > and reducing the size of my gmail account. Keep stuff offline > > This topic is going of-topic I guesssssss... Even I get scared quiet often, the only option left is to buy a domain just for E-mail purpose... I have a small do's to avoid scare form crackers, but if Google goes down over night :P, we are virtually dead literally. 1) Keep passwords irrelevant to our personal Information 2) Be cautious about what you share on Social networking sites 3) Don't use *remember password* option for banking and important websites like E-mails systems 4) Install Noscript addon on Firefox 5) Use latest browsers and update regularly 6) *Use your brains and Common sense...* > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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