BajaNomad - Forum Security

Forum Security

monoloco - 7-21-2012 at 10:52 AM

Is anyone here even slightly curious how a third party managed to access the private messages of Baja Nomad members? Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the forum. Just sayin'.

BajaNomad - 7-21-2012 at 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by monoloco
Is anyone here even slightly curious how a third party managed to access the private messages of Baja Nomad members?

As always, if someone has access to your password (or email address), then that person has the ability to access your user account here.

It's not a software issue.

woody with a view - 7-21-2012 at 01:04 PM

did i miss something? :?:

BajaNomad - 7-21-2012 at 01:11 PM

:?:

http://www.rosen.com/divorce/divorcearticles/electronic-comm...

http://www.enotes.com/internet-reference/internet-privacy#el...

Mulegena - 7-21-2012 at 02:20 PM

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Originally posted by BajaNomad
As always, if someone has access to your password (or email address), then that person has the ability to access your user account here. Its not a software issue here.

Is this to say that anyone needs only a Nomad's email address to access our Nomad account?
I would think they'd need to know, or hack, our Nomad password, no?

EnsenadaDr - 7-21-2012 at 02:36 PM

It had nothing to do with Doug or the Forum. It had to do with someone having access to the password. The password has since been changed.

EnsenadaDr - 7-21-2012 at 02:42 PM

It is one thing to have been able to access the U2U's. It's a whole other ball of wax to freely publish them on their own private forum to boost readership. It wasn't about exposing a murder confession, it was to give the false ambience that the Forum code was cracked and/or public information was accessed to obtain these U2U's. The person had the password that is publishing them. That much I can confirm.

DianaT - 7-21-2012 at 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by soulpatch
My biggest issue was a U2U someone forwarded and subsequent parties altered and disseminated...
I did not come out smelling like a rose and it chagrins me to think that I was stupid enough to trust like that.
Live and learn.

Also, the rancor and efforts to promote this rancor, the outright nastiness by a very few here combined with my previous error of trust has certainly diminished my participation here.

Oh, well! :cool:

Many people freely pass on a u2u or an e-mail. Some feel that once it has been sent to them, it belongs to them to do what they choose --- they do not see them as confidential.

Other people pass them along in order to do harm to someone else just because they like harming people. Makes them feel good/superior. They also do it to gain favor with the person to whom they pass on the e-mail or U2U.

And if someone altered the message on top of it all, well, that says a lot and is probably a person who like many, will lie with impunity seeking some type of gain for him/herself.

Now about the e-mail thing. I know that EnsenadaDr has said that this time someone had password access.

However,

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Originally posted by BajaNomad

As always, if someone has access to your password (or email address), then that person has the ability to access your user account here.

It's not a software issue.

Doug is it true that all they need is your e-mail address????

I have also been told by a few people that on occasion you read the U2Us??? I have never wanted to believe that.

Now with the addition of that other forum, etc., things have become a bit too wacky around here --- time to say adios.

:yes:

[Edited on 7-21-2012 by DianaT]

greengoes - 7-21-2012 at 04:52 PM

Sorry to see you go DianaT, it was always a pleasure to read your posts. Maybe you will change your mind.

EnsenadaDr - 7-21-2012 at 05:00 PM

I think she is under the misconception thatsomeone having your email address can allow them to break into your email. You need the password as well. No one can do anything with an email unless your password is "12345". Its unfortunate that people take personal information and use it to promote their own agendas.

[Edited on 7-22-2012 by EnsenadaDr]

Ateo - 7-21-2012 at 05:04 PM

Just know that everything you post on here can be used against you.........

U2U's as well.

I'm more cautious now. Everything you post online will be there forever.

Ateo - 7-21-2012 at 05:07 PM

Yeah, let this be a reminder to change your passwords from time to time, and like Ensenada Dr. said, don't make it 12345.

I hope you're not leaving DianaT. You add much here.

"Adios" never means goodbye on this forum

thebajarunner - 7-21-2012 at 05:17 PM

Even Skeet will be back,
you can count on it.

"Adios" is ...... well, not gonna say it,
but it is not goodbye

J.P. - 7-21-2012 at 05:25 PM

Some one on another site acessed our Face Book and poster pictures that were on facebook, They acessed public records and posted some things out of contex, so far every thing they have published is true and a 2nd grade marooon could find them out.
In defence of what they published as I stated it's all true and I hope it makes them feel Important, there Is more to find and if they have good sense and run across the info they seek they may find out what I am really capeable of.
I seek no Public Office and am not looking for Friends I rely on no one for my happiness so Dig Away. Because I realy could care less, I dont get Mad I get EVEN. :lol:

[Edited on 7-22-2012 by J.P.]

wiltonh - 7-21-2012 at 07:04 PM

My motto is to publish no more personal information on line than can be found in the phone book. That includes Facebook.

BajaNomad - 7-21-2012 at 10:31 PM

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Originally posted by DianaT

Doug is it true that all they need is your e-mail address????

Need access to your email address - in other words access to see your incoming email. With such, they could have a new password issued by the system - via email - that they could use to access your user account.

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I have also been told by a few people that on occasion you read the U2Us???

Absolutely - if you want to word it that way. This is not the first time this has been asked, and I believe I've never stated otherwise. Many of the complaints I receive here - and need to look into - have to do with u2u messages people have received. The software is setup so that the board admin can easily view any user's u2u.

Now if the question is do I peruse the u2u's of others on a regular basis - the answer is no.

-
Doug

BajaNomad - 7-21-2012 at 10:37 PM

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Originally posted by wiltonh
My motto is to publish no more personal information on line than can be found in the phone book. That includes Facebook.

What takes many by surprise however is how much is out there published about us by others. And until we're targeted by someone with either great research skills, and/or knowledge of some of the resources out there easily available in the "Internet age", we're not aware of it.

We don't know what we don't know.

woody with a view - 7-21-2012 at 10:46 PM

some users words were hacked somewhere, then the "private" internet scribbles were placed on another forum board using false pretenses. there are people out there that need to get their priorities worked out...... see Aurora, CO.

Diana, don't go.....

Ken Cooke - 7-22-2012 at 12:13 AM

I shut down my Facebook page after trolls attempted to friend me in order to gain access to family photos and personal info. Watch your Facebook info, everybody!

Doug has always made it clear he has access to U2U

thebajarunner - 7-22-2012 at 07:21 AM

This should not be a great surprise,
especially to those that have been around a while.

Been a part of the game from the beginning,
and I have no problem with this.

Facebook????
Ken, you said it best,
there is more to life than living it through that site.

trashed

Lindalou - 7-22-2012 at 08:47 AM

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Originally posted by J.P.
Some one on another site acessed our Face Book and poster pictures that were on facebook, They acessed public records and posted some things out of contex, so far every thing they have published is true and a 2nd grade marooon could find them out.
In defence of what they published as I stated it's all true and I hope it makes them feel Important, there Is more to find and if they have good sense and run across the info they seek they may find out what I am really capeable of.
I seek no Public Office and am not looking for Friends I rely on no one for my happiness so Dig Away. Because I realy could care less, I dont get Mad I get EVEN. :lol:

I know two Mx. citizens that were trashed by this same person that would be happy to stand beside you if you needed to do anything legal about this.

[Edited on 7-22-2012 by J.P.]

[Edited on 7-22-2012 by Lindalou]

He said, she said...

EnsenadaDr - 7-22-2012 at 09:27 AM

Here is what Fulano claims: (taken right off of his forum)

I can confirm that Fulano does not get any confidential information from anybody else. Not Lizard, not ELINVIESTIG8R, not anyone. Most of the time, people give me information about themselves unknowingly. They do this because they just don't know how to SHUT THE @#$# UP. All the information Fulano has is from publicly available sources.

Now, they want to put the blame on others for the U2U's?? Fulano clearly stated he did not get the information from anyone else....seems like you can't believe anyone over there.

Trashed

J.P. - 7-22-2012 at 10:23 AM

Thanks but no thanks,Time will take care of these people.
All this was caused because I stated my true Feelings about another person on this board . and that hasn't changed.
It's Ironic that the very person they were attempting to defend , they have now turned on. and once agin is playing the role of victum. :barf:

Lindalou - 7-22-2012 at 11:02 AM

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Originally posted by J.P.
Thanks but no thanks,Time will take care of these people.
All this was caused because I stated my true Feelings about another person on this board . and that hasn't changed.
It's Ironic that the very person they were attempting to defend , they have now turned on. and once agin is playing the role of victum. :barf:

I think everyone has seen through that BS.

CortezBlue - 7-22-2012 at 12:04 PM

Why would anyone be surprised that this site has been compromised?

The largest corporations and institutes have been compromised.

This is why it is not a good to share to much personal information anywhere on the web.

mtgoat666 - 7-22-2012 at 09:52 PM

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Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Here is what Fulano claims: (taken right off of his forum)

I can confirm that Fulano does not get any confidential information from anybody else. Not Lizard, not ELINVIESTIG8R, not anyone. Most of the time, people give me information about themselves unknowingly. They do this because they just don't know how to SHUT THE @#$# UP. All the information Fulano has is from publicly available sources.

Now, they want to put the blame on others for the U2U's?? Fulano clearly stated he did not get the information from anyone else....seems like you can't believe anyone over there.

fulano lied??? fulano posted personal info on the internet??? the personal info was fabricated, incorrect or just plain wrong??? shocking news!!!!

=====

fulano's entire being has been reduced to 24/7 obsession with an obscure disfuntional corner of the universe populated by elvis8, la doctara, woooosh, joejustjoe, mcfez, roberto, somebody named greench1t, 3 chickens, a bunch of pictures of cats, and a regal all-knowing goat -- did I forget to mention anybody? if so, go pound sand!! :lol:

)

who cares if fulano reads and posts U2Us because a nomad was sloppy with protecting their password??. no one outside of the group of misfits, malcontents and reprobates gives a rats @ss and I am almost sure that the U@U conversations that fulano focused on are probably exceedingly uninteresting

Lindalou - 7-23-2012 at 08:50 AM

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Originally posted by mtgoat666

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fulano lied??? fulano posted personal info on the internet??? the personal info was fabricated, incorrect or just plain wrong??? shocking news!!!!