Lost Your Password? Google Can Find It


	Lost Your Password? Google Can Find It

thisnamecantbetaken

11-24-2007 10:22 AM

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hacker, security, passwords, browser, google

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11-24-2007 4:00 PM

Rashid Malik

Now that's bad for us but a goldmine for hackers!

11-24-2007 5:39 PM

kkcapricorn

Sadly, this is technically beyond my meager computer skills.

11-26-2007 8:14 AM

jonhatespigeons

Well if anyone figured out my passwords they would have the following:

An IQ of a simpleton (like me)

Access to endless emails between my friends and I calling each other wa**ers.

Access to the endlessly negative bank balance I have - (feel free to pay some of it off)

But most importantly... access to all the ultimately useless stuff I look at on the web.

Ok, hackers.... do you dare challenge the intellectual might of a slow reading 4yr old...???

ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

11-26-2007 11:40 AM

superiorarticles

scary.... but true

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