[aclug-L] Re: WeatherLab virus

["Jonathan Hall" <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As an email address?  What does that have to do with security?  If that's
your preference do it.  I think it's silly, personally.

As a password?  Why not use your first name as your password, too? :)

Everyone and their dog uses their birthday, or their child's birthday as
their password.  It's a horrible idea.

If I was going to try to manually hack someone's account, I'd start by using
names of family members and birthdays as their password.

-- Jonathan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Bottorff" <robotto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:29 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: WeatherLab virus


>
> what do security minded types think
> of using your birthday as an email address?
>
> how about a password?
>
> robert bottorff
> robotto@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> p.s.
> wow, was that pgp key signing 4 years ago already?
> i think only 4 folks traded keys that night.
> clint, jon hall, me and another guy.
>
> David Carmichael wrote:
> > Reply to:
> >
> >>On FYI-2:
> >>I "really" use abcjr@xxxxxxxxx, and have since December of 1999.  I do
> >>have to say that I find your "logic" behind placing e-mail addresses in
> >>your "spammers" filter quite "amazing".
> >
> >
> > Not if you had any idea the amount of spam / virus infected emails that
I
> > get!
> >
> > It seems that every time I post a message in any 'Newsgroup" I receive
about
> > 50 to 100 junk/spam/virus mails the next day.
> >
> > And since many of the messages come from the same servers I just found
it
> > easier to trap the "@xyz.com" of any email address in the related
message
> > and add it to my filter... which sends back a nice little message asking
to
> > have my email address removed from their address book listing... and if
they
> > got the anti-spam message by mistake how to reach me.
> >
> > --David
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Arnold Cavazos Jr." <abcjr@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:20 PM
> > Subject: [aclug-L] Re: WeatherLab virus
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>David,
> >>
> >>On FYI-1:
> >>It is reall easy to track down what EarthLink customer that
> >>e-mail came from if one had access to EarthLink's radius logs.  But
> >>it appears that you have mistaken me as an EarthLink employee, and I
> >>haven't been one of those since Feb 2 2001.
> >>
> >>On FYI-2:
> >>I "really" use abcjr@xxxxxxxxx, and have since December of 1999.  I do
> >>have to say that I find your "logic" behind placing e-mail addresses in
> >>your "spammers" filter quite "amazing".
> >>
> >>--
> >>abcjr
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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