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

[Ramnarayan.K]

On 4/24/10, Mallikarjun <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com> wrote:


> This topic is going of-topic I guesssssss...

maybe but this is about security so hope fully our large hearted mods
will allow it to go on a bit
>
> Even I get scared quiet often, the only option left is to buy a domain just
> for E-mail purpose...
> I have a small do's to avoid scare form crackers, but if Google goes down
> over night :P, we are virtually dead literally.

@ google dropping us dead cold -
this is worrisome and i have been attempting to find out some
solutions to download my gmail. As there seems to be some problem and
neither evolution, nor thunderbird or kontact are able to proceed
beyond december 2007 (for whatever reason)

a friend made a python script to enable this to happen , will post the
link in a while, in case others also want a back up to gmail and they
are having problems with their mail clients

>
> 1) Keep passwords irrelevant to our personal Information
> 2) Be cautious about what you share on Social networking sites
> 3) Don't use *remember password*  option for banking and important websites
> like E-mails systems
> 4) Install Noscript addon on Firefox
> 5) Use latest browsers and update regularly
> 6) *Use your brains and Common sense...*

Good thoughts

add to that
1. Don't share passwords across accounts and specially keep computer
and online passwords different

2. Don't send passwords by email
3. Don't hand out passwords to stupid websites who ask for them

ram