Thread: E-mail hacked
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Old 07-14-2004, 08:50 AM   #19 (permalink)
rmarshall
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Sometimes it's way too easy to get into an email account. I had a friend who wanted to read her sister's email. There was a button called "Forgot your password?". If you press it, it gives you a hint. In my friend's sister's case, the hint was "shuttle". It didn't take me more than a second to remember the must famous shuttle was "challenger". Bingo! That was the password.

Moral of the story: Don't make the password hints so easy that anybody would be able to guess.
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