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As for AOL being easy to get passwords from, it's the users we obtain passwords from, not AOL itself.
Also AIM is rather easy to be cracked if you're infected with a trojan horse because (at least it used to) encrypt your password and store it in your computer, with a trojan all i would do is download your file decrypt it and bam got your accounts. However i believe AIM has been transfered to the AOL database system now, i could be wrong tho as I have bene out of the game for a while, i just check in every now and then. kevin. |
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Originally Posted by teknics' date='Mar 3 2003, 01:05 PM
[quote name='Geoffman72' date='Mar 3 2003, 03:56 PM'] Thats way more than I ever needed to know about anything with AOL. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png
And you do know the main AOL database got hacked right? Thats the only way I can think of that the passwords were found out. My dad uses my computer to check his email and I keep this thing locked down pretty tight with NAV Corporate and being behind a firewall. Also theres no way even my E-illiterate parents would have gone to a shady site like one of those. The AOL's database servers are so over-encrypted and over-protected it's not even close to being funny. You know they encrypt an encryption of the encryption of a password? And to the umpteenth degree basically. Let alone the fact that the server storing the passwords only accepts traffic on a dynamic port number which changes each time the server is contacted to check password vs name. So now to contact the server you must make the request of comparing a name to a password, at which time you must already have encrypted the password before sending it to the server to compare, the server retrieves it and goes through it's decryption process. once decrypted to about the half-way point it is checked against a "false" database, if matching in the false database it the re-encrypts it back to the original state, checks it vs. the actual database if those 2 match then your requested connection is granted access to the connection server that you dialed originally which connects t the AOL Program server, unless you're not on an AOL dialup account, then you're connected via your ISP to the AOL program server directly. Either way you have mere moments of connection to the password database server. The algorithm(sp?) was solved at which time about two days later AOL changed it and to my knowledge it hasn't been solved again. kevin. [/quote] lol you sound like you either work at AOL (god forbid), have tried to hack in before, or know someone who has! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/wacko.png |
hehehe.. SUPER REPUS....
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Originally Posted by cabe' date='Mar 3 2003, 04:12 PM
lol you sound like you either work at AOL (god forbid), have tried to hack in before, or know someone who has! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/wacko.png
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Originally Posted by 75 Repu' date='Mar 3 2003, 04:13 PM
hehehe.. SUPER REPUS....
http://commerce.prodigybiz.com/Custo...ges/xpandl.jpg kevin. |
If you think I have even a shred of intelligence you should know I wouldnt think about/look at funny/let alone open **** like that.
I basically delete any email that I dont know who the sender is including the "blue" ones from AOL usually. |
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