[180139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: gmail security is a joke
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Tue May 26 12:56:42 2015
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Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 12:56:40 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:26 AM, 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.
We don't even know if this email originated by Markus himself. :-)
As for security, the default access for mobile devices (which require
no further credentials for Mail, Web, SMS) is a swipe.
I too wish the world was bulletproof from birth, but it's not.
-Jim P.
