gmail security is a joke

Wed May 27 13:51:28 UTC 2015

"Security is an illusion" - Confucius probably

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Joel Maslak <jmaslak at antelope.net> wrote:

> I also suspect not every telco validates number porting requests against
> social engineering properly.
>
> A telephone number isn't something you have, it is something your provider
> has.
>
> On Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
>
> > On (2015-05-27 14:19 +0200), Owen DeLong wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > > If someone has the ability to hijack your BGP, then you???ve got bigger
> > problems than
> > > having them take over your Gmail account.
> >
> > This is second reply to this notion. I don't understand what is attempted
> > to
> > communicate. I'm sure no one on nanog thinks BGP hijacks are rare,
> > difficult
> > or yield to consequences when called out.
> >
> > > That???s interesting??? Why do you choose to give access to your
> > personal SMS messages
> > > to so many of your coworkers?
> >
> > I don't, but they can provision my number to any SIM they want to.
> >
> > --
> >   ++ytti
> >
>