Re: "Someone just used your password..."

From	Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.security.misc
Subject	Re: "Someone just used your password..."
Date	2016-12-05 04:20 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Richard Kettlewell wrote on 12/5/2016 4:15 AM:
> Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> writes:
>> Richard Kettlewell wrote on 12/4/2016 6:01 PM:
>>> Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> How could that person/entity get my passwords? IOW is there some
>>>> basic security practice I'm missing? Don't they need to be able to
>>>> access to one or more of my computers/smartphones to get passwords?
>>> 
>>> Perhaps they can access one of them.  Other possibilities would be that
>>> you’ve been phished or that your password is easy to guess.
>>
>> Nope.  I'm super careful about falling for phishing, and even if I
>> fell for one, I surely wouldn't fall for 3 or 4.
> 
> How have you measured how careful you are?

How do you do that?

>> None of my passwords is easy to guess. No, I do not use "password" or
>> "123456". :-)
> 
> What were the passwords?

OK, sure. :-)


> There were three suggestions above, you’ve only addressed two of them.

I didn't address "perhaps they can access one of of them" because I
can't imagine how they would do that.

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"Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 17:28 -0500
  Re: "Someone just used your password..." Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-04 23:01 +0000
    Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 18:54 -0500
      Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-05 00:29 +0000
      Re: "Someone just used your password..." Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-05 09:15 +0000
        Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 04:20 -0500
          Re: "Someone just used your password..." Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-05 11:26 +0000
            Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 07:20 -0500
              Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-05 12:47 +0000
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                Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 13:59 -0500
                Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 14:07 -0500
                Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-06 01:54 +0000
                Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 01:52 -0500
  Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-05 00:27 +0000
    Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 19:45 -0500
      Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-05 00:50 +0000
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