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Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?



Teemu writes:
> I would guess that someone has tried to automatically collect a lot of
> email addresses and ended up getting also those message id's. Then an
> attacker tries to intrude with those addresses.

Web sites insisting on using email addresses as user names is one of the
many pernicious practices out there.
-- 
John Hasler 
john@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA


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