[ubuntu-in] leina yar

Ramnarayan.K ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 06:23:31 BST 2010


On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Manish Sinha <mail at manishsinha.net> wrote:
>
> You can use Google accounts SMS password recovery.
> This is something nice since I find mobile to be more secure than
> password. Someone can install a key logger and steal your password and
> even the secondary email address.
> For account recovery via sms, the cracker has to get hold of your mobile
> physically which makes this SMS recovery more reliable.
> http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=152124

One learns something new every day

Thanks Manish, this is really useful to know. Makes life a bit less
scary , esp if one is on vulnerable systems

ram



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