[ale] "hacked" (was: gmail then Google Apps hacked)

[justin caratzas]

I believe that most cases of email "hacking" are going to be like this,
where a security question "whats my favorite cat's name" is easily answered
by going to someone's flickr page.

kudos to that "hacker", and shame on the accound owner.  Again, I don't care
about "attacks" like these.  The day I read about gmail being attacked
because of some combination MITM, XSS, and GPG flaw (for when it supports it
in the future /want), then I get worried and care.

bigjust

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com>wrote:

>
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135661/Report_Hacker_broke_into_Twitter_e_mail_with_help_from_Hotmail
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 13:32 -0400, justin caratzas wrote:
> > Correct me if I'm wrong Jim, but I think he means we need to separate
> > a service being hacked from an individual account being hacked.
> >
> > In this case, an account was hacked, and boo-hoo on the account holder
> > for picking loose security questions, or whatever it was.  GMail as a
> > service was not hacked, which in that case it would affect everyone.
> >
> > bigjust
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>
> > wrote:
> >         Did my post affect you?
> >
> >
> >         -----Original Message-----
> >         From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
> >         Behalf Of Jim
> >         Popovitch
> >         Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:17 PM
> >         To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> >         Subject: [ale] "hacked" (was: gmail then Google Apps hacked)
> >
> >         On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 05:59, Jeff
> >         Lightner<jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> >         > One reason why Google Apps and cloud computing isn't such a
> >         great
> >         idea:
> >
> >         The word "hacked" has different meanings to different people.
> >          I'm a
> >         gmail user and I don't feel that the past "hacking" incident
> >         affected
> >         me one bit.  In fact an outage would be a bigger pain, but not
> >         so
> >         great to justify building/maintaining my own infrastructure.
> >
> >         Did the gmail hack or twitter hack affect you?
> >
> >         -Jim P.
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