This is nice article. i give you 10/10

\"I should write a new article centering on finding information\" You should. This was about as much to do with hacking as http://kalen.tripod.com/howtohack.html does.

If you know your friend, then wouldn\'t it just be eaiser and better to go over to their house and leave a spy program on their computer. If not, then maiden names would be useless unless you know who they are already.
The way it is today, no need to hack to get someone\'s password. If you want to know what they ate for breakfast yesterday, just read their blog or watch their vlog. Only kids really give out this much personal info anyway, hence myspace.

It use to be you kept your life private like a diary, now everyone knows when you had your last peroid. I wouldn\'t be to suprised if they just started posting their passwords on the site itself. I\'ve seen it once already on a youtube account.
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Ian Lives in Denton, Texas. I wonder what his zip code is?

Well Said. I would like to add something, I always use a password generator to generate random password and memorise it and I keep changing passwords. Ofcourse I can remember them very well since I use it regularly. Now I am even changing the password for this site.

@igykalen: the second part of your comment is my point, its too easy. and easier to do it to adults, actually, since theyre over 18.

I\'ve found indirectly after coming here that using a different sn from site to site is better then a secure password. If a site you are on is hacked and they have your password, there\'s nothing you can do about it, much less know about it. But they will have trouble tracking you across the internet. I\'ve even figured that the best sn\'s should be the oppsite of a good password. A common word or a simple short name like \'tk7\' (which google gave me 81,000 hits) will make it pointless to try and google it. You\'ll always end up with a too many hits, so you *could* still even use the same un on other sites. But unless you\'re just attached to some random id (that you use to hide behind anyway) then it makes more sense to change your id.
This is also why many sites now have a registration system with seperate username and display name.
If someone is pissed at you, it\'s real easy to find you anywhere. Of course I only figured this out about a year back, and since then have been using unique un\'s on every different site I go to.

However concering reading someone\'s email. No matter the age, they are always boring to read through.

I didn\'t bother to rate this as there was no point. People either already know this or they don\'t. You should make a better one that leaves out any reference to myspace (naturally), and focuses on general Username Security, not just email names as knowing an email is just one way to track a person across the net. Any reused ID will work just fine.

Great article. I will be happy when I will be able to write something like that...

it simple and useful information

just proves dictionary atks works on people with low iq or just don\'t care about there account,gives me that warm felling inside.ps 10/10

Great article. Made me look at it in a different perspective. 10/10

lol... tip for people who don\'t want to get hacked on hotmail... Don\'t make the secret question \"What is my favourite food?\" if the answer is pizza or chocolate... i\'ve done this before and 4 of the people i have done it to used pizza or chocolate

Damn, I can\'t believe I never thought of this before.

on that note I\'m going to lock down my email accounts more tightly. (I personally wish you could the security question altogether. I\'ll never forget my passwords.)

very good people overlook that

really inspiring. makes me just wanna sit down and try it. you also helped me learn more about the whole myspace thing and how easy it really is.

Good information. 10/10. But I think everyone on this site should already know this.

I tried this on my friends Yahoo account. It didn\'t seem to work like you said. I could have entered his username and they would have assigned a new password, but they would have sent the password to the alternate email address that they ask for during registration. If you know the email, well they just email the current password to the existiting email. Am I missing something?

Sweetness.

ok.. nice article. im a \"new\" guy, so this \"myspace hack\" is just a little fun for me to do. 8/10

great article. 10/10

10/10 Very good article!

Very nice article, I\'ve been doing this with my older brother since I was literally nine years old. Of course, it was even easier, my friends were as small and stupid - well maybe even more stupid - as me to put actually the easiest \"answer to the question\" you could imagine. The only thing is that some people have thought about this (like me) and now write totally non-sense answers to these questions, for example:
Q: Name of your first pet
A: I love pizza and I hate to take a bath

So it may actually be even more difficult under this circumstances to \"guess\" the secret answer.

Another point I would like to highlight is this:

\"All of this can be dangerous if you reset the password, cause they\'ll know something was wrong. Never hack two accounts in one day, always wait, so that they think one had nothing to do with the other.\"

Actually, what happens with Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc. is that when you answer the secret question, you will have to change your mail\'s password. By doing this, you\'ll only have a few minutes/hours/days, depending on how often does the person checks their e-mail, to do everything you said before. I mean, when they find out their password \"doesn\'t work\", they\'ll do exactly the same we have commented before (fill in their age, zip code, etc.) and they\'ll reset the password, so we won\'t have access to their e-mail any longer, neither we will be able to reset their other accounts, if we don\'t want them to know someone have been in their accounts.

I found the article great

this is so simple but so effective, most people don\'t realise what the secret question is all about, or rather how it can be used to get the persons email account, and as you said once you have that you have everything, to get the secret answer just phone them up and ask.

If I had a nickel for every time somebody\'s account was this easy to break into. As the author said, its just creativity and time to get the information you need. Interesting article but didn\'t cover any really unknown or rare tricks.

9/10

Great article made me realize my fault's and how easy it is for predators to hack accounts. thax for your knowledge!!

Hahaha this workd 4 me 2 lol but sum of the security questions r crazy like wats ur pets name...go figure how r u gonna get that if u dont know the person without seeming suspicious XD nice article though

Great job. I dont know how in the the world scoial enginereeing has to do anything with hacking. But nice job.

This article discusses Myspace accounts a lot. A very useful resource is the target's Facebook profile. It has their email 98% of the time, and lots of other personal info that will help with recovery questions and what not. Of course I would never do anything of the sort. ;D