This is why my pof passwords are always some variation of "zachary" (with some numbers appended).
Plenty of Fish Hacked
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#12It is mind boggling that the young 23yo Chris Russo was smart enough to hack PlentyOfFish but not make any sense with his crazy requests and compulsive lies. This morning Markus Frind CEO of PlentyOfFish plans to do and official statement about the events. Fun Fact: Markus Frind graduated the same year as I did from BCIT in Vancouver. I took Mechanical Design and Mark took Computer Science. Do I regret not taking CS,…
What do you mean "young"? 12 year olds have broken into more sophisticated systems.
Young compared to me for sure
Re: Plenty of Fish Hacked
#13It is mind boggling that the young 23yo Chris Russo was smart enough to hack PlentyOfFish but not make any sense with his crazy requests and compulsive lies. This morning Markus Frind CEO of PlentyOfFish plans to do and official statement about the events. Fun Fact: Markus Frind graduated the same year as I did from BCIT in Vancouver. I took Mechanical Design and Mark took Computer Science. Do I regret not taking CS,…
Grumo media looks pretty cool. Maybe you shouldn't regret it? I'm doing a startup in Vancouver as well. Your videos look awesome but are out of my current budget. :(
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually worse than that. I don't know what it's like now, since I haven't used POF since 2008 or so when I met my current girlfriend (though I only remembered to kill the account a few months back), but back then they would actually send you reminders every so often - I want to say once a week - that included your plain text password as a reminder. I think this is just the kick in the ass I needed to go through…
If there is an option to use some kind of hardware token with your banking then I would strongly advise you to take that. Having just a password to protect your bank account sounds pretty scary to me. That's about as juicy as it gets. I'm paranoid enough about my servers having 'just' a password to protect them (oh, and an ACL), if my bank accounts would have only a password I wouldn't sleep. Every time I log on I ha…
Are you European? I only ask because my friend in London is the only person I've ever heard of using such a device.
Unfortunately, such a thing seems all but unheard of here in Canada.
Our debit and credit cards are being replaced with cards with chips embedded, which could be a sign that such devices are coming, but for now I'm afraid my password is my only real line of defense online. I have noticed that when I login from a new computer (for example, when I visit my parents), the site uses one of my challenge questions to ensure it's really me. I guess that's something, although I really don't know the exact circumstances that trigger the challenge.
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#15Related, but slightly off-topic.
When I read this post on my iPhone, I saw a match.com ad on the top of the page. match.com competes with Plenty Of Fish.
POF is a multi-million dollar business. I'm surprised that they aren't paying Wordpress to provide an ad-free experience.
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#16I wonder if Markus realizes that e-mails have been going out non-stop to customers lately from spam profiles using their 'wants to meet you' "feature". On the one hand, I feel bad for PoF becoming the target of an attack and drama, but from the tone of the post, it wasn't handled right on their side either. PoF really needs to get its act together on the security side. It's sad to because it was a fairly well executed concept when it first arrived on the scene, and has since just turned into what amounts to a spam/ad farm.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
If there is an option to use some kind of hardware token with your banking then I would strongly advise you to take that. Having just a password to protect your bank account sounds pretty scary to me. That's about as juicy as it gets. I'm paranoid enough about my servers having 'just' a password to protect them (oh, and an ACL), if my bank accounts would have only a password I wouldn't sleep. Every time I log on I ha…
Are you European? I only ask because my friend in London is the only person I've ever heard of using such a device. Unfortunately, such a thing seems all but unheard of here in Canada. Our debit and credit cards are being replaced with cards with chips embedded, which could be a sign that such devices are coming, but for now I'm afraid my password is my only real line of defense online. I have noticed that when I log…
> Are you European?
Yes, working from NL at the moment.
> Unfortunately, such a thing seems all but unheard of here in Canada.
That sucks!
> Our debit and credit cards are being replaced with cards with chips embedded, which could be a sign that such devices are coming, but for now I'm afraid my password is my only real line of defense online.
Ok.
> I have noticed that when I login from a new computer (for example, when I visit my parents), the site uses one of my challenge questions to ensure it's really me.
So the bank likely either keeps a record of 'known' IP addresses for you or they keep a cookie on the computer that they use to identify a computer that you've used at least once.
How annoying. It's interesting how we berate POF for not following 'best practices' but even institutions such as banks could do a whole lot better to protect their and their customers best interests.
Are you liable for fraud committed with your account online?
Or would the bank indemnify you if your password were used to clean out your accounts?
Re: Plenty of Fish Hacked
#18It is mind boggling that the young 23yo Chris Russo was smart enough to hack PlentyOfFish but not make any sense with his crazy requests and compulsive lies. This morning Markus Frind CEO of PlentyOfFish plans to do and official statement about the events. Fun Fact: Markus Frind graduated the same year as I did from BCIT in Vancouver. I took Mechanical Design and Mark took Computer Science. Do I regret not taking CS,…
Grumo media looks pretty cool. Maybe you shouldn't regret it? I'm doing a startup in Vancouver as well. Your videos look awesome but are out of my current budget. :(
I just checked your profile, do you also do iPhone apps? We're a cool startup in Vancouver and we're looking for help with our iPhone development, maybe we can chat
Re: Plenty of Fish Hacked
#19It is mind boggling that the young 23yo Chris Russo was smart enough to hack PlentyOfFish but not make any sense with his crazy requests and compulsive lies. This morning Markus Frind CEO of PlentyOfFish plans to do and official statement about the events. Fun Fact: Markus Frind graduated the same year as I did from BCIT in Vancouver. I took Mechanical Design and Mark took Computer Science. Do I regret not taking CS,…
Grumo media looks pretty cool. Maybe you shouldn't regret it? I'm doing a startup in Vancouver as well. Your videos look awesome but are out of my current budget. :(
Thanks dude! I know, I know, startups are inherently strapped for cash but when you raise your first round don't forget me!
Give me shout anytime and tell me about your startup, love to meet entrepreneurs ;)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Grumo media looks pretty cool. Maybe you shouldn't regret it? I'm doing a startup in Vancouver as well. Your videos look awesome but are out of my current budget. :(
I just checked your profile, do you also do iPhone apps? We're a cool startup in Vancouver and we're looking for help with our iPhone development, maybe we can chat
We produce explanatory videos for startups like these http://grumomedia.com/category/grumos/
Thanks for checking me up cool Vancouver startup!