Difference between revisions of "Email password cracking"

Latest revision as of 09:19, 9 October 2007

The Email password cracking thread is a classic thread on sciforums. Although the title sounds very technical and the thread is posted at the Computer Science & Culture subforum, the content resembles more a soap opera.

A fine young lady by the name of sonicgirl is suspecting that her fiancé is cheating on her and originally asks for advice on how to crack his email password so she can check out his suspicious communications to the outside world[1].

Of course, sciforums does not approve of advise in illegal matters, but many people offer this poor lady advice and the thread quickly polarizes into two camps: one party who states that it is okay to snoop on your partner as there is no smoke without fire, and the other party who says that if you don't trust your partner, you should not be getting married to him anyway.

The dashing lady in question is going to get married soon though and has invested 6 years of her life in this relationship. She cannot stand the uncertainty caused by strange behavioural patterns of her partner in life.

She finally installs a keylogger on her computer, and leaves the house so the fiancé has ample opportunity to use the computer. And what she finds shocks her! He is being unfaithful, and even worse, he is being unfaithful in a disgusting manner.

She sends the offending material to everybody on the wedding list and calls the wedding off. She locks him out, and throws his stuff outside[2]. A reaction that is extreme, but very understandable after being deceived so callously.

This revelation doesn't stop the thread though. The advice coming in just increases in volume and frequency.

It is indeed a wonderful document of the influence of modern technology on our lives, although one with devastating consequences for specific individuals of our society.

reference

- Email password cracking thread[3]