I Was Hacked

[dsheinem]

I didn't say it was your fault, I said that you should know if your password is strong or not. Having a weak password on your account is akin to leaving your credit card on the ground. Of course only criminals would steal it, but you've made it the low hanging fruit.

You don't even know my password, and you're claiming this.

I didn't claim your password was weak.

You're the kind of person that defends the hackers at Sony, too, aren't you?

No, I never defended the Sony hackers nor would I. They deserve to go to jail.

All I was saying was I don't know how they got in. Even if my password was weak, say for example I had "cat" as my password. It's still not my fault that some douchebag took the time to try 100s of variations of passwords before falling on "cat".

No, if your password is "cat" it isn't your "fault" that you got hacked but it is your fault that the hack was so easy. Setting up a strong password that you change regularly is a good safeguard, which is all I was suggesting you might consider in the event that you hadn't. As Hobie suggested, the person with the password "c4tzR@w3s0m3" is less likely to be hacked by some amateurs running a password hacking app.

All these hacker idiots should be in prison whether it's the two-bit criminal that went after me, or it's anonymous going after Sony.

Should these specific hackers be punished? Sure. Should "all" hackers? No. Not all hackers should be in prison, and not all hacking is morally or legally wrong.

[AppleQueso]

There isn't any need to turn this into yet another hacker ethics thread.

BurningDoom, the point is that a weak password may have been what allowed these hackers access to your account, and that you should take steps to defend yourself in the future.

[Hobie-wan]

I wasn't trying to say "OMG BD is teh stupidz" or anything. I was just asking if you knew how it happened.

[Luke]

And for good measure, angry emo Parker says "rawr!".





Okay, maybe that wasn't for good measure and I just wanted to post that pic, but "rawr!" anyway.

[gtmtnbiker]

There isn't any need to turn this into yet another hacker ethics thread.

BurningDoom, the point is that a weak password may have been what allowed these hackers access to your account, and that you should take steps to defend yourself in the future.

Like I already mentioned, he could have used the same password (strong) for a number of websites and a different website was hacked thereby compromising his password.

So BurningDoom, do you use the same password for multiple sites including the site of the hacked account?

[BurningDoom]

No to both. I do use the "BurningDoom" name for a lot online stuff. Mostly message boards and XBox Live.

[o.pwuaioc]

Anyone who uses the password "cat" is essentially leaving their car doors unlocked with a big sign that says "steal my stuff" on the window.

[AppleQueso]

Anyone who uses the password "cat" is essentially leaving their car doors unlocked with a big sign that says "steal my stuff" on the window.

It's a good thing that nobody is using that password then, huh?

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

And it is time to add this favorite gem:



JY

[fvgazi]

And it is time to add this favorite gem:



JY

That was the p/w to my phone for a long time (due to spaceballs).