Re: Re: Do you trim() usernames and passwords?

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:57, Omega -1911 <1911que@gmail.com> wrote: > Those were some pretty confident statements there. "You doubt the government > would want to hack your computer..." Well, the U.S. tries to prevent over 1 > million attacks per day as documented and has admitted to having been > breached more often than not... !!! But as someone who let's just say has > prior knowledge, I personally would not want your password unless I needed > to do some "social engineering" but rather hijack your connection to hide my > nefarious intent. Is that how it works out there in Indianapolis, David Chapman? Because, to the rest of the world, this whole diatribe just sounds plain silly. > No, your yahoo login info wouldn't be of much use, but your bank login info > would be.... there are many who trade account info multiple times on private > networks for a few dollars at a time. Your login and account info doesn't > mean much to them, but a few hundred passwords can make thousands daily. Wow. Good thing folks don't use their Yahoo! email accounts for password reminders, I guess. Just.... wow. Pfft. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/