On 08/02/13 03:14, Michael Hawkins wrote:
> I say this because I work in networks and information security and even
> my yahoo email was used to send spam. Now, I use MD5 hashes as my
> passwords, so they are all unique and very near impossible to guess. I
Aww, looks like I got something wrong. I wanted to make the point that
it's generally fairly easy to spoof email senders, but I suspect I got
filtered by Yahoo! Groups.
Anyway, md5 hashes of what? Do you mean your password is a longish
string of alphanumerics? That doesn't guarantee that the password is
secure. Unless you're using SSL it's fairly easy for a malicious user
on your network to sniff your passwords (but not as easy as people make
it out to be in the general case). This is why Kerberos is such a
complicated bugger to work out...
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