[ubuntu-in] OT: gmail sms recovery (was leina yar)

[Ramnarayan.K]

2010/4/24 Mallikarjun <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com>:
>> On second thoughts had some more questions
>> 1. What will google do with the mobile phone numbers (general question)
>
>
> I don't think this question is valid. Bcoz, Google has way more valuable
> information than your mobile number, like all your chats, e-mails, browsing
> habits, and much more. I think you should be concerned about them rather
> than mobile numbers. Maximum one can do with mobile number is sell to
> spammers.

true, i agree fully

however its not like if a phone number appears in an email google can
just take it, in this case we are legally giving it to them.

>>
>> 2. Won't the folks cracking an account also start by changing the
>> recovery information,
>
> Mostly one can crack into your E-mail system via recovery options, unless
> you have obvious passwords like "password123".
> Once they crack into, you can do very little if cracker changes password...
> but they wont do that. They want to spy what you do.
>
> My answer is "It depends on the cracker".

so no really safe options, if i look at what all is in my gmall
already its quite easy for a cracker to just unplug me and become me,
absolutely scary, in fact i think i am going to start deleting mails
and reducing the size of my gmail account. Keep stuff offline

ram