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Re: [korgpolyex] Yahoo flaw - server or client side?

2013-02-08 by Gordon JC Pearce

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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Gordonjcp MM0YEQ

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