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Was Rep. Weiner's Account Hacked? The Question is Irrelevant

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ElCapitanAmerica6/02/2011 10:06:02 am PDT

re: #196 Claire

Then why does someone have to be told what it is (given permission to access the page) or guess what it is. Why is it obscure and not just obvious and out there.

It’s a URL, but it’s “your” url and belongs to you, more or less, unless you allow others to contribute by showing them the address to get to it.

I see a huge difference in security levels between the two, but if the URL for weiners yfrog page was something simple like
weiner@yfrog or something, and then once there you had to put in the secret 5 word code to actually post, that would be the same difference, wouldn’t it?

Huh?

It’s not a URL, it’s an email address.

It’s also not a secret “5 word code”, it’s a word with about 5 words on average that is easy to guess. That’s the problem.