Linkin Park's Mysterious Cyberstalker

[rbcp]

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/05/ff_linkinpark?currentPage=all/

That's a really interesting story about how some bored lady was stalking the lead singer of Linkin Park.  She spends a year breaking into his email accounts, downloading their pictures, hacking their cell phone voicemails, looking through their cell phone toll records, and hacking his Ebay and his PayPal accounts.  All because the dumbass lead singer used his middle name as his Yahoo password.

The best part is at the end where the lead singer whines about how he has to use different, secure passwords on everything now, with complicated letter-number combinations that he can never remember.  He wishes he could go back to just using his middle name.  He sucks at the internet.  Almost as bad as Paris Hilton, using her dog's name as her password.

But read the article.  It's really interesting what the crazed fan does to him and how they catch her.  It's a long article, but it's worth it.

[splynt0r]

My Ben Franklin says it was jammie really 

[jammie]

My Ben Franklin says it was jammie really 

I can't even social engineer a Blockbuster, but it was me that found the article!

[Tachyon]

I'm not sure who's lamer, Paris Hilton for being so easily beaten, or the hax0rs who bragged so loudly about their uber-l33t feat of guessing an obvious password.

[rbcp]

People are just stupid about passwords.  I did a website for a guy last year and he picked his first name as his password.  I told why that was such a horrible idea but he didn't care.  He said he would forget any other password.  Later we had to check his Yahoo account to get a confirmation email and he was using his first name as his password on there too.  I've encountered lots of people like that.  Even if they do use a good password, they use the same one on everything.

[z09]

Hell, my employee password is my girlfriend's name.  I hope that isn't too bad of one!  But good find.

[gangals]

Hell, my employee password is my girlfriend's name.  I hope that isn't too bad of one!  But good find.

You aren't the brightest one, are ya?

[rbcp]

Hell, my employee password for cingular is

You are not allowed to post passwords on the forums.  Even if it's your own.  People have been banned for doing this.  You might want to re-read the rules.

[mr_doc]

You might want to re-read the rules.

Implying that he read them once?

[splynt0r]

I usually think of Key combinations that are very memorable add a phone number to the end and I have a secure Pw

[Foul_Fiend]

Wow, thats pretty awesome.

[Nod]

All my passwords are p00p! They'll never be hacked!!!!

[afreak]

People are just stupid about passwords.  I did a website for a guy last year and he picked his first name as his password.  I told why that was such a horrible idea but he didn't care.  He said he would forget any other password.  Later we had to check his Yahoo account to get a confirmation email and he was using his first name as his password on there too.  I've encountered lots of people like that.  Even if they do use a good password, they use the same one on everything.

This is truth.