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Flazryu
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PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2006 6:51 pm


Ok, I have been spending a lot of time in the Q&A lately, helping any I can, and I noticed one things that keeps coming up, people being hacked.

Now I personally would never hack anyone, but I know enough about it to make it so much of a pain for some one to hack me that they would more than likely get their IP banned.

Anyway one way the one may gain access to your account is by using a Brute Force Program, a program that tries to decifer your pw by using a randomizer, well in order for this to work it needs time. The most powerful one currently available can only handle seven in a resonable time.

Well enough of the techno babble on with what I came here to say. This may be a major in convienence for all of you but I really don't wanna be surfing the Q&A and find that one of you have been hacked. So my point unfolds, I want every one of you to come up with a pw, one that has no words, at least one capital letter, is at least eight characters long, has numbers and letters, around half the pw is to be made up of each, and they are to be jumbled.

Now make that new one your current pw and protect the new one, make sure you are the only one to know it, also make sure that you trust the computer and network that you are using to get on, also that you trust the network and/or computer that you are using with gaia.

Oh and one final point, for the love of God, don't give your pw to anyone, either on paper or via electronic transfer.

I am writting this cause I don't wanna see any of you get hacked and loose all your stuff, it takes too long for the proper things to go through for you to be assured that you will get anything back, and gold is not even a question, it's near impossible for them to track where it comes and goes from.
 
PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2006 12:34 am


And I take this Forums virginity...MWAHAHAHA

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:02 pm


Ok, first off, Chris, none of us found you spamming the board funny, yes that was spamming.

Second to those of you who said that you won't do this, consider it your own loss, and don't go complaining in the forums when it does happen, cause people do take precautionary measures for a reason, and the one described above is one of the measures, so if you feel you are so high and mighty that you don't need precautionary measures, so be it.

Oh, and if you were joking by putting that answer this was a very serious topic, and in fact still is, and it is not something to be immature about.


to all that followed this, thank you for your cooperation, and if any of you are still having doubts about this topics validity, use your hotmail's create new password feature, and use this style, I guarentee that you will get a high rating on the meter they use.
 
PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:30 pm


ok

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:43 pm


Kyle, someone on this guild was hacked, by another person on this guild, how can we report them?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:32 pm


Hmm I may not be on very often but I do know the links are at the bottom of the Forums main area, on the site, there are three links: | Click Here to Report a Hacking | | Click Here to Report a Scamming | | Click Here to Report Abuse / Harassment |

Just click the apropriate one.

()Yes these are the right links()
 

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:33 pm


This is lost_soul99 fyi, or Dejah however you know me
I was hacked, and lost most of my stuff and account, and on this account I used kyles suggestion, and its working great for me now
^.^ thankyou
PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:26 pm


As many on Gaia say, part of it is not blabing your password to anyone, anywhere, but there is the small factor of what I mentioned above, use a strong password, one that's not going to be guessed easily, and also try not to use the same password everywhere.

If a site that you are joining requires you to not be able to use the criteria, I recomend not joining that site, it very well might mean that security isn't one of their concerns in which case, if you are hacked and your account stolen, they won't do anything about it.

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