On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 18:43:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:36:27 -0400 (EDT), Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > I tend to think passwords (except the very simplest or guessable ones) > > are not "discovered" but handed over. > > 1. My password is known only to me. Even my wife doesn't know it. > 2. My password is a random sequence of uppercase and lowercase letters. > It is not a pronounceable word, and it is fairly long. > 3. I use e-mail only from my home computer. > 4. I use wired ethernet only > 5. I never respond to the (almost daily) phishing attacks designed to > coax my password out of me. > 6. My wife and I are empty nesters. There is no-one else at home. > > In short, I have not "handed it over".
The comment was a general one and directed at all our readers. However, earlier you said "Someone discovered my password somehow". You have just demolished that guess as having no basis as a likely cause.
