On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:34:14 -0600 Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> articulated:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 07:25:20PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:41:57 -0600 > > Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> articulated: > > > http://passwordcard.org will fix that. :) > > > > Dumping GShit would have been my first choice. > > Not sure what your problem is. His account got hacked, likely due to > a poor password, so I recommended a solution to a better password. In > fact, passwordcard.org can be applied to anything that needs > passwords, including the passphrase for your GPG key. It's randomly > generated using a secure PRNG, and the randomness in the chosen > password from the card guarantees enough entropy to secure your > account against brute force attacks, provided the length is > sufficient. I think you are misunderstanding what I am inferring. For starters, that is the 5th account that I have heard or known of that was hacked in March alone. I am sure that the total is far higher based on a simple statistical accounting of the number of accounts using GMail. Happy Rob :) Personally, I consider Google's web e-mail application grossly insecure. I further do not trust them for one millisecond to not be scanning documents passing through their server(s). It would not surprise me a bit to find out that one of their employees is actively distributing confidential information on its subscribers. While I do not claim that any of the other large web based operations such as Yahoo or Hotmail are immune to problems; I honestly do not believe that they actively engage nefarious acts to the degree of GMail. Just my own personal opinion. I did once have a GMail account and am fully aware of what I am implying, something that has been referenced by others. By the way Rob, and I mean nothing personal, my reference to GMail as GShit is fully in accordance with the how Microsoft has its registered name distorted into something entirely different on virtually every FOSS forum I have ever read. Google, in my opinion, is worse than Microsoft in many respects. If we are free to slander one entity by creating an aberration of its name, then certainly that right extends to all similar entities. I was certainly not attempting to offend you personally. Just my 2¢. -- Jerry ✌ gnupg.u...@seibercom.net _____________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header.
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