[Discuss] Thunderbird problem

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-08-01 17:35-0700 Gordon M. Craig wrote:

> Interesting about Thunderbird. I too have a problem, a rather strange
> one at that. I have one password for almost everything from root to bank
> account; no problems....

In general don't do that, and even if you choose to ignore this standard
advice to use a variety of passwords, certainly don't advertise that you
have ignored that advice!  This list is archived so anybody in the world can
read your above message and act on this information (i.e., remotely break
into your box, figure out your root password, then remotely clean out your
bank account using that same password).

I trust most Linux distros are more secure than windows machines, but that
is not saying much, and regardless of OS, it is unlikely any computer
connected to the internet is safe against a determined effort to crack it.
Time to immediately change your root password to something completely
different than your bank account password!

Alan
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