gmail security is a joke

Jim Popovitch jimpop at gmail.com
Tue May 26 16:56:40 UTC 2015


On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Markus <universe at 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.



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