On Thursday 15 July 2010 09:53 AM, Surya Sharma wrote:
I only want to know if it is really possible for some experts to crack gmail and facebook accounts without access to the users' machines. I don't want to know the actual method of the same. I feel that people are just bluffing to create an impression but those who I come across say they know friends who actually demonstrated it on their friends' accounts. Haven't yet come across a cracker otherwise I would have observed him.
Needs brute forcing, will take years if its a complex password. If its a dictionary password, then you have that twitter admin event on your hands again.
They could steal it off the network thread if you're not using secure SSL or someone else's internet. That takes minutes. But you'll be accessing the account, so I don't think thats what you're looking for.
I don't know. These guys appear to have a halo around their heads and their friends are full of praise for their skills.