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I'm Being Hacked

By Troll Tracker

Several email alerts from Blogger this morning, warning me that people are trying to figure out my password and log into my account. Blogger is not the paradigm of security, so who knows how much time I have left. Even though my password was already strong, to be safe, I changed it to something even stronger. There are 62 upper-case-letter, lower-case-letter, and number choices for each slot, so an 8-character password has, I think, 220,000,000,000,000 different combinations. That's 220 trillion. Good luck. And that's if I limited my password to 8 characters or less.

Meanwhile, hacking is a crime. Can anyone tell me whether there are civil or criminal penalties for inducing others to hack?

On a happier note, thanks for all the email. I won't be able to respond to it all, or even look at it closely until the weekend.

Full post as published by Patent Troll Tracker on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).