Hacking Account

[L. Stefan]

Hello! I have a question regarding my gmail account. Is it OK if I try to hack my OWN gmail account? I have acces to it but I'd like to try to hack it for education purposes.

Thanks!

[Marko Vukovic]

LOL, seriously!? I've seen some weird questions on this group before but this one really made me laugh out loud.

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:00 PM, L. Stefan <eff...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello! I have a question regarding my gmail account. Is it OK if I try to hack my OWN gmail account? I have acces to it but I'd like to try to hack it for education purposes.

Thanks!

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[Michael Methot]

No, it is not legal. You would be using malicious code to access a server you do not own. It would violate not only Googles own terms of service, but several laws as well.

Cheerios

On Jun 16, 2013 3:35 PM, "L. Stefan" <eff...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello! I have a question regarding my gmail account. Is it OK if I try to hack my OWN gmail account? I have acces to it but I'd like to try to hack it for education purposes.

Thanks!

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[Surekha Shyam]

Please educate us when you get thru. Its a good education.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:30 AM, L. Stefan <eff...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello! I have a question regarding my gmail account. Is it OK if I try to hack my OWN gmail account? I have acces to it but I'd like to try to hack it for education purposes.

Thanks!

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[Kenneth Ayers]

I guess he thinks it's ok if he's breaking into his own account.  Maybe he's going to try to guess the answers to his own security questions or something.  :)

[Michael Methot]

Heh, this gave me a nice little fit of the giggles. Thanks for that mate, was having a rather bleak afternoon.

I am actually rather interested in knowing exactly what he wanted to try now though.

[Marko Vukovic]

Hey Mike

Hacking (or cracking actually) someone's account by attacking Google's custom Linux web servers would probably be futile as the actual information is spread over thousands of different systems all over the world. 

One would also have to be highly skilled to find a vulnerability (if one even exists), and avoid detection. I somehow doubt that somebody asking "Is it OK if I try to hack my OWN gmail account?" would have the requisite skills.

The more likely scenario is infecting a user's PC with a keystroke logging Trojan via a malicious website. That is hardly hacking/cracking though.

Marko

[Dhanushka Gunasinghe]

Hacking is understanding every thing deeply, specially protocols , tcp stack ,ip ,netwoking etc. Just run another person's code are downloaded script is not a hacking 

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[Zack (Doc)]

In a literal, semantically correct sense, yes, Dhanushka.  However, in the popular vernacular, hacking is bad, malicious, and involves appropriating others information even through scripted means.  The implication in the original post is the attempt to gain access to an account through means other than simply entering one's normal credentials.  That's the "bad" interpretation of hacking.

[Alvin]

Several, but not all, of my friends with Yahoo accounts--and some others--have been hacked multiple times, and I always feel bad about that.  Hence, although I have other accounts (Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, etc.) for various reasons, those Address Books/Contacts are empty.  I am very confident in gmail.  Whatever they're doing to protect my information is working great.