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Re: Ebay hacked

From Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Ebay hacked
Date 2014-05-24 22:35 +0000
Organization Miskatonic U
Message-ID <slrnlo27md.1ras.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
References <bu5nskFnom7U1@mid.individual.net> <slrnlns7m5.scb.g.kreme@amelia.local> <vg3oayn5gh3.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi> <UN6gv.90834$jf3.39025@fx31.am4>

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In message <UN6gv.90834$jf3.39025@fx31.am4> 
  BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> But it's not just ebay's password page making things impossible; everyone's
> at it. The BBC, for example, where if you forget a password, also sends you
> an email link to a password-change page, but which immediately says has
> timed out (and it has many other issues too).

Are you sure your system clock is correct?

I've never had a timeout issue with the BBC site.

> While Hostelworld only accepts a password that has at least one lower-case
> letter, an upper-case letter, a digit, and a symbol! It was impossible to
> create one I could remember, so I left it.

Don't remember passwords, get a password manager like LastPass (free) or
1Password (not free, but I find it worth the cost).


-- 
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried
before.

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