Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
I Love Pat Phelan, But Not That Much
The above message appeared in my Gmail chat earlier this evening, much to my surprise and amusement. Pat and I are close, but we’re not that close, so I picked up the phone and enquired (at some volume) “Has your Gmail account been hacked or are you drunk?”
His account had, predictably, been hacked. (As Pat later pointed out, this was a problem, but not as large a problem as we would have had if my answer had been “yes.”)
Anyway, this caused me to look up some information on how, aside from brute force password attacks, a Gmail account might be hacked, and might be protected. There’s a fairly straightforward solution there, and Stewart Curry had a very smart suggestion on checking for re-directed mail if your account has already been compromised.
Moral of the story: Gmail is not invulnerable, and I definitely charge extra for some services.
17 Jan 2009
| In: Interpipes + Ireland | Tags:naughty, pat phelan
Yup the idea with the filters is they set up a keyword for something like “password” and have any mails like that forwarded to a different email account, giving them access to lots of fun stuff. Oh and thanks for the link, I seem to have gained a few followers on twitter from it!
18.01.2009, 1:43 amGod I laughed.
18.01.2009, 11:31 pmOh thank God. I thought we could be building up to a showdown between Pat and Handelaar at the Blog Awards, both fighting for your hand.
(While we’re pinting at the bar).
Scary stuff though!
19.01.2009, 9:48 amCan’t believe no-one’s asked the key question here.
19.01.2009, 10:34 amAt what hourly rate DO you allow clients to partake in extra services?
;P
Thats hilarious,good thing you were on the ball.
23.01.2009, 1:26 pm@Michael Kane: At more than your budget, honey.