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dreamchaser
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 Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:11 pm Post subject: New signin for G-Mail? |
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All of a sudden this afternoon when i sign in to my g-mail account, I enter the correct username and password the it acts as if I entered it wrong, asks for it again with a spot below to enter a keyword as you see it.
Anybody else get this or is this something someone come up with to try and swipe account login info? |
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mike
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| gooogle did this to prevent hackers from brute-forcing passwords. just to make sure a REAL human is entering them! |
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dreamchaser
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| ok, had me wondering....first time i have seen it and checked the url for https(secure login). |
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dnam
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I was going through the contact list, and strangely I had an email of a person that I never received or sent an email to... It wasn't even anyone I offered an invited to. Strange. |
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tubaman93
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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I'm guessing it's part of the beta testing thing where they see if something works or not.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| dnam wrote: | | I was going through the contact list, and strangely I had an email of a person that I never received or sent an email to... It wasn't even anyone I offered an invited to. Strange. |
If you donated an invite or gave it to anyone, the person who registered will appear in your contact list. Also, the person who invited you will be on your contact list.
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tnt
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | All of a sudden this afternoon when i sign in to my g-mail account, I enter the correct username and password the it acts as if I entered it wrong, asks for it again with a spot below to enter a keyword as you see it. |
Today when I was setting a new account for someone, after several failed tries at coming up with an available name, I got the "keyword" thing. Not sure what that's all about. |
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cvrk3
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| the keyword is appearing in random. have you observed? |
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kidgoku
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 6:19 am Post subject: |
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Thats one thing good about Gmail tho, nor hotmail or yahoo have provided such thing with logins, and for bruteforcers it would be taking centuries to crack 1 password. They would have to have to exact username/password and the random word wich is almost impossible with a program/software
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Fahhem
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| I have been thinking about the whole keyword thing, and wondered why hackers aren't smart enough to do the following. They can still brute force a site, all they have to do is create a program that tries the username with a different password, BUT saves the picture to a file and the hacker himself can put a word to the keyword and the program can then use that word and send the password. But I guess the bruteforce would still become a pansyforce. |
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cvrk3
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| there are no keywords to be typed as of now!! it appears in random. |
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andy
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Fahhem wrote: | | They can still brute force a site, all they have to do is create a program that tries the username with a different password, BUT saves the picture to a file and the hacker himself can put a word to the keyword and the program can then use that word and send the password. |
Looks like you put some time into that. your not going to start hacking are you  (changes pasword to ***************************************** just in case)That would work unless they make a new one each time.
if you go here you get new numbers every time. puting them to a file wouldn't be hard |
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Eric
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Yep, what Fahhem said is not very hard to pull off, and no only images, an application can be programmed to scan the location of a color, then trace out lines of the same color connected to it and identify the letter, and atlast put in the keyword...
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Mayur
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| I have gotten that keyword thing before. It appears if you keep getting your login incorrect. |
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antioco2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:04 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, an incorrect login and there you get it... |
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