Who is accessing your Gmail account? • Hacker News Board

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by jdbeast00 » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:47 PM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #6

snitko wrote: post #4

The site is down. Summary, anyone?

It should be back up and running soon. You'd think 1GB of RAM would be enough to handle a few thousand hits to serve a static page. EDIT: The server is still having issues.

maybe you are running out of tcp connections

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by acangiano » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:51 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #10

acangiano wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be back up and running soon. You'd think 1GB of RAM would be enough to handle a few thousand hits to serve a static page. EDIT: The server is still having issues.

Hello, fellow Apache user! You may wish to look into Nginx. My Japanese toilet seat practically has enough memory on it to serve all my business needs. One of these days I have to migrate all of my Apache-hosted Wordpress blogs to Nginx.

Yeah, nginx is my favorite web server as well. I use it for my startup, and I'm in the process of migrating all my blogs from a 1GB slice with Apache, to a 4GB server in the cloud with nginx. With that I should be ready for virtually any amount of traffic my tech site may get.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by snitko » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 1:59 PM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #7

ottbot wrote: post #5

Interesting, I had a look at the tool after reading this and have activity from the same IP address mentioned in the article. Update: I have also Etacts with enabled access. I had completely forgotten about them.

I'm afraid this is common. We better find out what the heck is going on with that IP. I've enquired with Slicehost about it, and we'll see if they get back to us.

I have the SliceHost ip in the list of recent activity too. Let's find out.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by surki » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 2:06 PM UTC

Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by notaddicted » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 2:20 PM UTC

I did a traceroute on the IP address he posted, and on all the websites he suspects. All signs point to etacts.

http://pastebin.com/TSKYCW6B

(also posted [EDIT: unsucessfully-attempted-to] this on the blog.)

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by axod » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 2:27 PM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #6

snitko wrote: post #4

The site is down. Summary, anyone?

It should be back up and running soon. You'd think 1GB of RAM would be enough to handle a few thousand hits to serve a static page. EDIT: The server is still having issues.

Apache default install sucks. install MPM worker or MPM event and it should fly.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by steve19 » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 2:28 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #10

acangiano wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be back up and running soon. You'd think 1GB of RAM would be enough to handle a few thousand hits to serve a static page. EDIT: The server is still having issues.

Hello, fellow Apache user! You may wish to look into Nginx. My Japanese toilet seat practically has enough memory on it to serve all my business needs. One of these days I have to migrate all of my Apache-hosted Wordpress blogs to Nginx.

" You may wish to look into Nginx"

I second this. For years I tried to tame the beast that is Apache. After switching to nginx I could not be happier.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by acangiano » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 2:31 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #16

acangiano wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be back up and running soon. You'd think 1GB of RAM would be enough to handle a few thousand hits to serve a static page. EDIT: The server is still having issues.

Apache default install sucks. install MPM worker or MPM event and it should fly.

Interestingly it's not a default installation. It's an installation that, in the past, I fine-tuned with great success. That said, it has been less than satisfactory over the past few weeks.

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by andreyf » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 2:33 PM UTC

Am I missing something here? From their website, it looks pretty clear that Etacts advertises checking your e-mail to remind you to keep in touch with people. Just like I wouldn't be surprised that Mint.com accesses my bank account online, this is hardly as outrageous as he makes it seem. Also, wiping your computer or using 1Password isn't going to stop you from giving your password to random web apps...

Re: Who is accessing your Gmail account?

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Post by acangiano » Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 2:39 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #8

If you're concerned enough about email privacy that you're going to wipe your computers for keyloggers, why in the world would you ever grant a SaaS access? That's just asking for trouble.

I trusted the SaaS applications I signed up with. One of them is used by the jQuery team, another one has just been acquired by Twitter, and the last one is a YC startup. I wasn't exactly tossing my password around. When evidence of a possible intrusion emerged, I revoked access (from those apps) and took steps to prevent a worst case scenario.