[geeks] Secret codes, was US Post Office Website broken again

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 05:14:17PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

I wrote:

>> For example, if you ask where I went to high school, I answer  
>> strawberry.
>> Or my mother's maiden name, I answer baseball. I also never use the  
>> same
>> answer on different sites.

> In your case, they would just use a dictionary attack, or bypass the  
> login.

Only if I had actually told you what I used. I was being illustrative.

Geoff.

BTW, I just found out that the right click, "select look up in dictionary"
function of Leopard's terminal works on windows ssh'ed into Linux computers.



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