Re: OT: a word of warning...

M of mione is BT everything excepot a domain I set up for him and his

> professional website. > His BT I-phone got 'found' and returned to the police... > ...3 days later his BT email account was hacked and used to send > hundreds of 'help I'm stranded in russia send me money' emails > His spam file filled up with bounces from people who were no longer on > the addresses in his address book. > the reply-to: was set to a very similar looking email address to his > name, on outlook.com > He changed his BT password, but BT seem to have essentially suspended > that email account. You could log into it, but it wouldn't send or > receive emails although no errors were reported. > Afer about 15 hours fighting BT support, I took over and spent all > afternoon testing it and giving a resasonable report to the usual > bombayDroid . > It now sends, but isn't receiving. > I mention this because a lot of people think that a BT all in one > account is just what they need, and the I-phone comes cheap.

You have a very odd idea of hacking, if the account was accessed via a stolen or lost phone on that account. It is up to the individual to protect their phone from use by others in event of it being stolen, etc.

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Dave Plowman (News)
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Admittedly that is a bit too easy, but surely no computer you have physical access to is secure, unless the whole disc is encrypted securely. It always used to be pretty easy to change the root password on any Linux computer, or boot from a live CD (other storage media are available) and read anything unencrypted on the HDD.

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Roger Hayter

As the old InfoSec wisodn goes; "Physical access trumps everything". Not

100% true, but getting there.
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Huge

Or as we used to say 'the easiest way to hack a computer is to go in, and ask te receptionist for the root pasword to the server, which she has in her top left hand drawer'.

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The Natural Philosopher

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