On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Easwar Hariharan meindian523@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.orgwrote:
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 07:19:22 Rony wrote:
How much of this is actually true and how easy is it to crack gmail and facebook accounts without the user's machine being involved?
I would suggest you take this discussion offlist. Cracking is criminal activity and that should not be discussed here.
Beg to disagree. OP is not asking about methods and techniques for cracking. He is IMHO, asking about the likelihood of such attacks compromising the accounts without need of access to the said persons (victims?) machine. This can very well lead to an estimation of whether our own(as in members of this list) security measures should be stepped up.
Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065
+1. The list has a weird practice of sending membership passwords in plaintext unless turned off.
Regards, Mohan S N