On Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:20 PM, jtd wrote:
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 21:38:55 Rony wrote:
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 12:44 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
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.
Discussing security issues is not criminal.
Dont be so sure. Cirumvention of preventive measures, aka "hacking" including posting of exploits is a criminal offence.
Recently someone was forced to withdraw a research paper at a conference (in Europe afair) that disclosed a vulnerability. If you disclose a vulnerability quite obviously you have to post an exploit, so that others can verify your tall claims and close the hole. But the product vendor choose to hide their head in the sand and served a cease and detest notice.
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.