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Re: gmail security is a joke

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Brooks)
Tue May 26 11:32:51 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
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From: Alex Brooks <askoorb+nanog@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 16:32:01 +0100
To: Markus <universe@truemetal.org>, nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Hi,

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Markus <universe@truemetal.org> wrote:
> Did you know that anyone, anywhere in the world can get into a gmail account
> merely by knowing its creation date (month and year is sufficient) and the
> last login date (try "today")? What a joke.

Can you not set account recory options which change the way password
reset requests are handled.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/183723 Gives some guidance?

Alex

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