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To: AugustWest who wrote (15485)8/8/2001 10:51:57 AM
From: smchan   of 32936
 
BTW, it is entirely possible that someone hacked your userid and/or password without accessing your computer. Without getting into a lot of detail, passwords which are words (especially common words) or that are related to personal data (dog's name, wife's maiden name, etc) are vulnerable. Use misspelled words or substitute letters for numbers. For example, "f1rst" rather than "first" or "butt3r" rather than "butter". Stay away from common keyboard patterns too (like QWERTY).

Finally, I know you said that to your knowledge your account number, etc is not stored on your computer. Applications tend to use "property" files to store information like that. Even if that data were encrypted, someone could still steal the files and replicate your setup on their computer.

Sam
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