I tell ya some people...

I sit here this morning trying to not think about going to school here shortly when my Blackberry chimes that I have an email. I check it its a notification that my password has just been changed on my old Yahoo account, I don't use the account much anymore mostly get on messenger once a month or so. But I've had the account for 10 years or so. A second later I get a message the password reminder was changed.

I hit the site and send in a compromised password notice which automatically sends an email for resetting the password to my primary account. I change the password and reminders twice. No more notices someone is doing stuff to that account and I still have full control.

About 10 minutes later I get an email on a third account that someone is trying to change the password on my primary however I have it set to only allow change through a third email address.

I swear someone is wanting access to that old account really bad for some reason.

I guess they didn't count on someone using different passwords for you know...EVERYTHING. Oh and using a never ending string of accounts as verification. I do admit the password used on that account was left as fairly simple because well I hardly ever use it so I kept it easy to remember oh well.

Fun times let me tell you. Some people just try and try but don't get anywhere I suppose. Funny thing is there were no emails in that account, no personal info at all.

as Sam Elliot would say:

"Sometimes you eat the bar, sometimes the bar eats you...."

I had someone trying to get into three of my accounts for a while. Why, I have no idea, but they just keep hitting them over and over. Luckily I started using epic pass poems instead of passwords long ago...

Back in my youth I dabbled a bit in computer security and read books like "Secrets of a Super Hacker" during free reading time (this was in 4th or 5th grade). I use to be one of those computer geeks that would be up all night long on the computer blazing around the web with my modem with a computer far beyond what most people had access to (dad was a computer engineer and taught me from well about age 1 on).

Kinda funny though when I worked for multiple ISP's and did some of the security work for one. Even I have gotten lazy about passwords at times.

One of my favorite password schemes on systems I had to change on a regular basis was alphanumeric system that was easy for me to remember but would often run into 12-24 digit passwords easily. I had one system that had an unlimited password length, I used a short poem coming in at around 50-60 letters lol. It was a system I did not have to access often but was one that had information not everyone in my office or even my department was allowed access to.