What are the actual risks? Just how likely is it that someone will breech your email and what would the consequences be? What would you suggest as an alternative means of delivering both password and password changes?

Consider that if the lost password procedure involves email, then there is no security benefit to keeping passwords out of email (the key to getting a valid password is just as harmful as the actual password if it leaks).

I fully agree. I was just pointing out that such a crazy thing actually does exist.

And yet that's how it works for cellphone minutes.

Or someone who is aware that that audience exists and is fairly large. I'm not part of it but I don't have to be to know it's size is significant.

I saw video last week of one defector sending largish bundles of "The Interview" DVDs over the DMZ with large plastic bags filled with helium.

There have been a lot of follow-ons to that too. People complain that kids sit their butts in front of video games and grow fat, but forget the reason. It's not that 'kids these days' are born lazy. It's that now that neighborhoods do not generally have a number of adults home at any given time, kids are strictly forbidden to go outside after school. They are under strict orders to lock themselves inside but no 'rough housing' (meaning running around engaged in physical activities).

Gee, I wonder why they don't exercise? What ever could be getting them in the habit of chatting online when they could walk two doors down and talk face to face?

If we as a nation want kids to value physical activity and going outside, we better fix the screwed up work/life balance until there are responsible adults at home again.

hey, I had a GE made in Mexico about a decade ago - complete junk. I just gave away a Bosch too - also junk. Before the GE was Whirlpool junk. Replaced the Bosch with a Maytag, a model with a grinder, and it's the first dishwasher I've bought that I haven't hated in two decades. Not sure where it's made.

I was surprised by the .36. When Lexus first came out c. 1990 they advertised the LS400 heavily as having a .28 and later models got down to .24. .36 is 50% worse than a 1990's sedan and surprising since range has always been an issue.

I guess it looks cool, though (hard to argue with the company's success).

I'm willing to bet the NSA has prior art on this.

You think the Lizard Squad is teenagers? The conspiracy theorists have been warning us that the NSA is run by the NWO and Lizard People for decades.

Better still, they should upgrade their management.

Sure they would. Just meet up on a discussion site and post your IP (using PMs if you're worried about assholes).

is the number of Astroturfer comments. I'd like to see some effort made to find and eliminate them.

because most of the games that came with the consoles were digital copies. This was done because digital copies are cheaper (no disc pressing, and yes, at these volumes it's an expense worth talking about) and there's not second hand market depressing the price of the physical copies in store. Having a pack in game basically tanks the value of the game at retail because of how the used market works.

In those cases, there tend to be a LOT of errors. The risk is that enough will read correctly to leak valuable information like passwords. Also, in those cases the memory is not active.