Re: Ebay hacked

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Ebay hacked
Date	2014-05-25 19:33 +1000
Message-ID	<budrn4Ff0vtU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 25/05/2014 5:45 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Rich <rich@example.com> writes:
>
>> Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:
>>> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> writes:
>>
>>>> Hard to say, but Fleabay has *always* been incompetent.
>>
>>> Now ebay apparently botched the password reset page too by not allowing
>>> pasting from the clipboard. Ars writes about it at
>>> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/after-the-breach-ebays-flawed-password-reset-leaves-much-to-be-desired/
>>
>> That is likely the result of some managerial drone idiot who is
>> technically incompetent thinking that crooks perform brute force
>> password search by:
>>
>> 1) using a browser, and;
>> 2) driving the browser via copy&paste
>>
>> Neither is true, but the managerial drone idiot got to look like he/she
>> did something useful to the other managerial drone idiots by
>> "increasing security".
>
> I think it's driven from the idea that having to type your password
> (usually twice) means it will be less likely that you enter the wrong
> one and be locked out.  The particular fear I've come across is
> preventing cut and paste from the first box to that awful "retype
> password" box, thereby propagating a typo.

Though given that there is almost invariably an automated mechanism for 
recovering from a forgotten password, it's not a valid reason, though 
I'll concede that that may have been the thinking behind it.

Sylvia.

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    Re: Ebay hacked Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-05-24 14:32 +0100
  Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-22 15:59 +0000
    Re: Ebay hacked Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-05-23 17:06 +0300
      Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-24 16:13 +0000
        Re: Ebay hacked Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-24 20:45 +0100
          Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-25 19:33 +1000
            Re: Ebay hacked Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-05-25 20:19 +0000
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        Re: Ebay hacked Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-05-24 21:12 +0300
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            Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-25 19:37 +1000
              Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-25 13:46 +0000
                Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-26 16:55 +1000
                Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-26 18:42 +0200
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        Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-24 22:32 +0000
        Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-25 19:36 +1000
          Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-25 14:00 +0000
            Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-25 17:18 +0200
          Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-25 22:53 +0200
            Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-26 17:03 +1000
              Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-26 13:17 +0000
                Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-27 15:18 +1000
          Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-26 06:57 +0000
            Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-26 17:07 +1000
              Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-26 13:21 +0000
              Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-27 05:53 +0000
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            Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-26 18:46 +0200
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      Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-24 16:28 +1000
    Re: Ebay hacked "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-26 15:27 +0100
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