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Re:Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insi... by ascagnel_ on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @01:13PM (#12599423)
As an added bonus, this means someone armed with the real answers to those questions won't be able to get access.

When Sarah Palin's "personal" email was hacked during the 2008 election, the attacker used her Wikipedia page and recovery questions.[0]

[0]: http://nypost.com/2008/09/19/dem-pols-son-was-hacker/

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Re:Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insi... by spacehome on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @01:59PM (#12599789)
'hacking'
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Re:Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insi... by Shanea93 on Thursday September 29, 2016 @08:22AM (#12604688)
"to circumvent security and break into (a network, computer, file, etc.), usually with malicious intent"

Just because they didn't impress you by finding a side channel timing attack for the password hashing algorithm used by Yahoo, doesn't make it any less of a hack.

Why spend millions investing in a network of computers to break encryption, when the key can be gained far more easily with a $20 tire wrench applied with sufficient force to the DBA's knee caps?

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