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Hacking back into yr Homail account...

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21:46 / 27.04.02

Wow. Some crazed stlaker of my best friend just got my girlfriend / his step-sister's password to her Hotmail account and is now wreacking havoc.

I feel so cliched...

So how do we get back into the account?

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22:08 / 27.04.02

I also feel highly concerned, if that helps.

How? How?

Trijhaos

22:11 / 27.04.02

I'm not certain because I've never been hacked, but can't you send a message to the adminstrators or whatever saying you lost your password. They'll send you a question you have to answer correctly and you'll get the password.

If that fails, I recommend a password cracker and a dictionary file.

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22:15 / 27.04.02

Wouldn't they just send you the "secret question"? Which was actually the one that was guessed in the first place, and how she got in. They've both been changed.

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22:16 / 27.04.02

And where geta pasword cracker?

Trijhaos

22:19 / 27.04.02

I'd really try to get this thing handled legally. Send a message to the administrators telling them you got hacked, how it happened, and all that stuff.

Note, I am not saying you should use a password cracker, they're illegal dontcha know, but if you type "password cracker" into google, you'll get a nice selection.

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23:41 / 27.04.02

It's OK, panic over.

Threatened to remove toenails 'til the little bitch told.

sigh Life is drama

Trijhaos

23:59 / 27.04.02

Glad it all worked out in the end even if you had to resort to violence. Oh well, sometimes a bit of violence is necessary.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:51 / 28.04.02

Hmm. Well, most of these little password-guessers do no more than run thru a database of likely answers until they hit the right one. Sources include lists of common number combinations, dates starting 19-, historical dates, the OED and Roget's Thesaurus, and also lists of film, music and TV personality's names.

The lesson here? Don't use a word, a name, or a birthdate as your password. The best password is a random selection of letters and numbers, but if you can't use that then use some conbination of unrelated words, numbers or names.

w1rebaby

16:29 / 28.04.02

two random words with a number in somewhere usually works for me

When I was at Edinburgh Uni, in the AI department, they had an automatic password-cracking program that tried to hack your account every now and then. If it succeeded you were sent a mail saying you had a shit password and should change it. I never got one, though...

Trijhaos

17:19 / 28.04.02

I suppose if one wanted to be really secure they could make up a word like "snagleplatypus" and run it through a l33t-speak translator.

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17:45 / 28.04.02

Or, you know, don't sit and talk about personal details with yr setp brothers manical stalker who an hour earlier wanted to kill me for splitting her and the step brother (sporadic sometime-poster 'planner) up because I'm jealous and not getting any from my girlfriend.

And there was no real violence (tho we're not back at school yet... ), and I didn't even threaten it. We got the stalkers best friend too. We don't even know who the stalker is.

sigh T'was morbidly fun, tho

Less searchable M0rd4nt

01:04 / 01.05.02

Here y'go- this will throw up as many random passwords/IDs as your little hearts desire.

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