How easy is it for someone to get your email address from Sciforums

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  1. Zakariya04 and it was Valued Senior Member

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    Hi all

    i was just wondering how easy it would be to get a memeber of Sciforums email address from the database, ie how ez is it to hack.

    i am a little worried about this, in light of my latest google search!!

    This is real important

    Thank you for reading
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    Zak
     
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  3. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    Well, with password, they are stored in hashes, and when some one wants to crack a password hash, it takes a week or two of pure brute force hacking....

    but, here, it would all depend on the level of security implemented for email security...
     
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  5. Zakariya04 and it was Valued Senior Member

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    Thank you Ricky

    I am concerned on how easy my email address is to obtain.

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    take it ez
    zak
     
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  7. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    sign up with a provider that can give you more than one email address.

    i would be more worried about a d-dos attack than someone stealing my email address.

    a d-dos attack is where someone uses your computer remotely and without your knowledge to disable servers or to spam.
     
  8. vslayer Registered Senior Member

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    ive noticed that whenever i receive a report it gives me the registration address of the user who sent it. im sure that wouldnt be terribly hard to exploit
     
  9. Zakariya04 and it was Valued Senior Member

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    Oh Shit

    I dont want someone to crack Sciforums and obtain my email address.

    i am very worried about this.

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    take it
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    zak
     
  10. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    don't worry about it too much zak.
    i'm registered on 5 different boards and nobody is spamming my inbox.
     
  11. Zakariya04 and it was Valued Senior Member

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    Hi Leo,

    Thank you for your response, and for helping subduing my worries.

    I am not really worrried about spammers, but something in relation to what i have been writting over the last few weeks, i have suddenly become a bit paranoid, espicially when my posts are on the first page of google!!

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    take it ez
    zak
     
  12. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    What you could do is change your e-mail to something you don't really check anyway. Almost anything I am registered for online has my "spam" account. Very few places know my real e-mail address.
     
  13. mindtrick Registered Senior Member

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  14. Zakariya04 and it was Valued Senior Member

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    thanks for the advice guys,

    i may do one of the above, as the email address i have for sciforums is my most official one.

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    take it ez
    zak
     
  15. outlandish smoki'n....... Registered Senior Member

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    too late heh heh.
     
  16. John99 Banned Banned

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    must go to goowy.com, goo wee/
     
  17. Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    Technically it might not take a week or two, it's dependent on how strong a method was used, Whether it's was digested or decryptable and how much hardware you have available and even if it's worth actually altering the software to do the decrypting rather than bruteforcing. Also in email addresses there are common denominators, for instance you've got @ and . in them somewhere and obviously the TLD's are a slowly increasing but yet finite list.

    As for Sciforums email addresses, currently the admin has removed them from being shown on Sciforums and even the form method of sending has been turned off to stop spam abuse. (Some scripters actually wrote methods of abusing forums form method to mass send spam.)

    For the most part email addresses are only really traceable should you tie your email to a website address which is added in a profile, or should you add it to a post or any other personal data which can be used to social engineer who you are and where you are.
     

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