Jon Ison
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 04:40 PM |
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how secure is Gmail ?
as the question, how secure is GMail, any one recommend a good secure email fed up of hot mail ect been hacked ?
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Agriv8
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 05:01 PM |
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Jon the answer I am afraid is as strong as your password I would advise any password to have Upercase LowerCase Numbers and Punctuation.
Also that no two sites use the same bur can follow a themefor example
for hotmail( use the first and last from the Website )
h1Harry@Catl
ebay
e1Harry@Caty
ect ect
regards
agriv8 rushin for train
Taller than your average Guy !
Management is like a tree of monkeys. - Those at the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. BUT Those at the bottom look up and see a
tree full of a*seholes .............
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steve m
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 05:09 PM |
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Also with all the current media hype, "how safe is anything?"
I doubt any email, phone, etc is 100% safe
Steve
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beagley
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 06:04 PM |
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Been using Gmail for several years and have had 1 attempted breach. I received a notification from Gmail stating that someone had attempted to log in
to my account from like Croatia or something but they prevented it since it was "out of the ordinary". I then promptly changed my
password to 10 characters including upper case, lower case, numbers, and special characters. According to some readings on the net (which are ALWAYS
true  ) this should take somewhere on the magnatude of hundreds of years or something to crack.
Long story short, been quite happy with gmail and would recommend it to anybody. As said though, make sure your password is good.
A good example is to make a sentence out of it so for instance take this sentence "My MK Indy is at home on the road!" and it would would
turn into "MMKIi@h0tr!".
"Capital M", "Captial M", "Capital K", "Capital I", "lowercase i", "@ symbol",
"lowercase h", "number zero", "lowercase t", "lowercase r", "Exclamation point"
Something like that would be REALLY hard to guess and/or crack by a bot program. Just make sure its an easy sentence that you won't forget!
<---- from experience 
Beags
I'm not scared!!! I'm just marking my territory.
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