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List:       mandrake-expert
Subject:    Re: [expert] spam hackers
From:       Chris Fox <dissectingtable () comcast ! net>
Date:       2004-03-31 21:36:59
Message-ID: 406B39FB.3090807 () comcast ! net
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rdcss@rdcss.com wrote:
| I had some spam hackers hack at my webmaster password for several days
| and they finally got it and started sending spam.

How were they able to deduce your password?  You should have had a
strong password with lots of punctuation and mixed-case alphanumerics.
You know, something like *gU3&dX5%g where there are about 100^n
possibilities.
- --
Chris Fox, Windows User, Linux User (#341856), non-partisan
Since free markets lead directly to monopoly, oligarchy, poverty,
unemployment, and Fascism, they cannot be said to "work" in any
meaningful sense.
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