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I seem to recall that Honan's accounts were hacked not because of his password strength, but because Amazon and Apple at the time had flawed password-recovery o
by _djo_ 14y ago
I seem to recall that Honan's accounts were hacked not because of his password strength, but because Amazon and Apple at the time had flawed password-recovery options that allowed an attacker to reset his password.
- debacle 14y agoSo this fluffy piece of linkbait is even less relevant? Fantastic.
- masklinn 14y agoThat is also my recollection of the event. Basically, the recovery process for one gave away the secret allowing resetting the password on the other one, something along those lines.
- mitchty 14y agoThat and being able to add any credit card to an Amazon account with a little social engineering. That was rather important.