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stolen and hacked id - 9/21/2007 7:29:34 AM

mrdpettigrew

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anyone else ahve the problem with an id taht was hacked or used by another and caused you problems with others taht was not repearable . Yesterday i ahd my account accessed and all i knew here were toldd i was dead as well as my yahoo account . part of the problem in the one case was a video link taht i can not prove i did not do even though i was not even there. they were seen on a video link to the o ther and asked to link by cam . i did not know this could be done . anyhow any advice on protecting ones self from this is appricated as i do not wishto to reoccure.

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RE: stolen and hacked id - 9/21/2007 7:42:17 AM

xoxi

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Advice:

1. Don't tell anyone your passwords. Even your SO's.
2. If someone does learn your password, change it. Immediately.
3. Make your pw's hard to guess. bLuemOOn34xYw is a lot harder to hack than bluemoon. Just make it something you can remember rather than a random string of letters and numbers.
4. Use different pw's for different things. I have four passwords that I use regularly, for varying levels of security. The pw I use on forums and stuff like photobucket is less sensitive than the ones for email and messengers, and so on. Also that way if someone guesses one pw they don't have ALL your info.

I hope this helps :)

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RE: stolen and hacked id - 9/21/2007 7:49:59 AM

mrdpettigrew

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use as many random letters and taht as i can i actualy use a book and each day the amount of letters in the set paragraph and line as the password thought it was safe but guess not . Aslo i never give o ut anything close to the things

my greater concern is damage done by comments made to others that can not be repared

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