OOYL
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Post by OOYL on Mar 23, 2009 19:13:48 GMT -5
Is a backup account necessary? It seems kind of lame to me. I deleted my account and still managed to recover it.
Also, it is impossible to delete the admin account.
So what's with these backup account shenanigans? Am I allowed to have one?
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Post by Nyi28nhl on Mar 23, 2009 19:16:37 GMT -5
Is a backup account necessary? It seems kind of lame to me. I deleted my account and still managed to recover it. Also, it is impossible to delete the admin account. Do what's with these backup account shanigans? Am I allowed to have one? GEO's admin account has it's password changed regularly and it is somewhere in the vicinity of 100 characters long. AKA, it's not going to be memorized and can only be found in a file on his personal computer. When he's not at his personal computer, he'd still like to post on TS and therefore uses the other account (since he doesn't know his admin password). For the reason on the extreme security on the admin account, look no further than TSC.
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Post by OOYL on Mar 23, 2009 19:20:50 GMT -5
This is a sports message board. Is it really necessary to have a computer-generated password?
Would anyone have the means or desire to hack this message board?
The only possibility would be a close family member stealing the password.
But correct me if I'm wrong. What happened at TSC? I know you know a lot more about proboards than I do.
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Post by Nyi28nhl on Mar 23, 2009 19:25:57 GMT -5
This is a sports message board. Is it really necessary to have a computer-generated password? Would anyone have the means or desire to hack this message board? The only possibility would be a close family member stealing the password. But seriously: the kid lives with his mom. But correct me if I'm wrong. What happened at TSC? I know you know a lot more about proboards than I do. thescentral.proboards32.com/That site was averaging almost 2,000 posts a month heading into it's 1 year anniversary when the password was stolen. How much would it suck if you logged in here and everything was suddenly gone? I don't blame him for being careful.
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Post by GEO on Mar 23, 2009 19:27:18 GMT -5
TS got to be a pretty big site as far as sports goes. We've banned a lot of people. There have been people who have attempted to crack accounts.
That being said, no one can "hack" a Proboard. Passwords can be "cracked."
At TSC, NYI's password was cracked and the loser who did it ended up ruining the site.
There is software that allows people to crack passwords, and I am trying to ensure that never happens.
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Post by OOYL on Mar 23, 2009 20:07:55 GMT -5
Isn't using software to crack a password a form of hacking?
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Post by Nyi28nhl on Mar 23, 2009 20:08:42 GMT -5
Isn't using software to crack a password a form of hacking? It's not hacking if you figure out someone's password and just log in.. no matter how you do it.
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Post by OOYL on Mar 23, 2009 21:40:11 GMT -5
Why does GEO have to use a password generator and change it "regularly". IF he wants to be so cautious, he can easily memorize a random group and numbers. Lets say his password is
slksja0943
I literally just typed that out of the keyboard. We've all taken precalculus. Lets see, each letter has a 1/26 probability of being selected. There are 6 letters. Thats a (1/26)(1/26)(1/26)(1/26)(1/26)(1/26), or a 1/11881376 chance of being selected. Thrown in those last 4 digits, and its even more impossible to guess.
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Post by Nyi28nhl on Mar 23, 2009 22:13:31 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining1/11881376 chance is when it's a human trying one by one. Using a program/computer interface it can be much quicker/easier to figure out even an obscure password. Likely no one is trying, but why not take the extra step to be safe?
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