A real scare

From: Maurice Cross (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/10/04

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    Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:37:48 -0700

    I have had a real scare yesterday. I thought that my
    computer was really secure and I work in an area where
    security of some information IS important.

    A friend of mine, who is a bit of a computer buff
    challenged me and offered to show me just what she could
    do. And for real...she managed to find my yahoo
    screennames and passwords (accurately) and also my
    hotmail ones. She was also able to tell me which groups I
    belonged to and which websites I had visited - well some
    of them. I am pleased to say that my main workwebsite
    was inviolable as was AOL.

    I would emphasise that my friend has had no access to my
    computer physically and to complete the magician trick,
    she is in the UK and I am in Singapore. How is this
    done, are there programmes out there to do it? and how
    does one protect oneself from this sort of arms length
    security violation?

    MRC

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