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I went through this two years ago. My ex was hacking into my accounts. - He used the 'last chance form' to get into my gmail by entering the password I'd given
by hzay 15y ago
I went through this two years ago. My ex was hacking into my accounts.
- He used the 'last chance form' to get into my gmail by entering the password I'd given him a year before this (I'd changed the password twice after giving him that password)
- He ran a dictionary attack on my college email which didn't have captcha's, then hacked gmail using the password that worked for my college email
- We were using shared vnc in college, he found his way to my firefox through a mutual friend, installed a plugin that sent him all POST data and got into my gmail again
I created a new gmail account after each incident. I had to abandon each gmail account once it was cracked because of the 'last chance form'. Back then, you only had to give it one or two correct past passwords, and it gave you access. On hindsight, I've been remarkably dense, but it was a good, early lesson.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoSorry to focus on this (this is Hacker News after all), but did he write his own Firefox extension for this? Or is there one available?
- hzay 15y agoHe told me he wrote his own.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoTo return from nerd mode, did you consider at some point relating your story to an uncle, and then explaining the concept of "rubber hose cryptanalysis, and letting him connect a few dots?
- hzay 15y ago:) No. I was playing a kind of zero-acknowledgement game, as a friend called it.
- DannoHung 15y agoAnd now we know why he's your ex.