<div dir="ltr">I don't consider user ids secret. Often they're the same as your email, commonly used, etc. With a strong password, the userid shouldn't be part of the security strategy. (I suppose changing the username might have benefits from a social engineering or DOS perspective.)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Mondo Hondo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knerdly1@gmail.com" target="_blank">knerdly1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks all, I write this after booting from a live-disk and changing all passwords of any consequence.<br><br></div><div>Why isn't changing the user ID a part of the security equation? This I've always wondered. <br>
</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Mondo Hondo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knerdly1@gmail.com" target="_blank">knerdly1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>My dilemma is as follows: <br><br>1) I fat fingered the following: "<a href="http://www.lpaypal.com" target="_blank">www.lpaypal.com</a>" .<br>
2) I did not reach PayPal, but some alternative site offering things I did not want. <br>
3) I retyped, "<a href="http://www.paypal.com" target="_blank">www.paypal.com</a>" in the address bar.<br>4) Signed-in PayPal, endeavored to transfer funds and got a security warning , "You probably are not reaching the site you wanted...click here...back to safety." <br>
5) The warning stated that I was reaching (IIRC) "<a href="http://www.roverpal.com" target="_blank">www.roverpal.com</a>" the address bar read "<a href="http://www.paypal.com/...." target="_blank">www.paypal.com/....</a>." <br>
6) I figured that there were DNS shenanigans, so I: shutdown, reset my clear modem and Linksys router, and then rebooted.<br>
7) I signed into PayPal, conducted my business, and logged-out.<br><br>Now I feel remorse. Was that foolish?<br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Preston<br></div>
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