[dba-Tech] Top 25 passwords

I just want to know why people from Argentina and Slovakia want to hack my 
gmail account -- I guess, it seems anyway, they never do anything, I just 
get the message. :(

I have a couple of passwords that I switch back and forth, but now, gmail 
doesn't like that anymore... I'm going to have to come up with a third 
password. :( What a pia.

Susan H.


> But this discussion raises another deep question. How can one crack
> passwords? I recall reading somewhere in some book about hacking, that the
> first thing they did was import a text file from some dictionary site, and
> thereafter pipe the contents into the Login screen. Most of the time, it 
> is
> alleged, it worked.