Here we go...

[HandyAndy]

glad the forum is back up & it really shows how much it means to so many people, it was missed by all, we,ll go from strength to strength & long may it continue.

andy

[davidimurray]

No need to apologise Chris - not your fault that some people decide to take offence. Now be a good boy and don't cause any trouble

[Chris Gibbs]

I'll do my best, can't promise anything though

Cheers

Chris

[Bonzo]

Welcome back Chris

I hope all of this did not put too much of a damper on your holiday

This forum will not take too long before it is better than ever.

Just having the forum back online is good enough for me, I am sure that you will continue to recieve the full support of each & every forum member.

Very timely reminder about user names & passwords

[bob]

Cant agree more re using different passwords on various forums,i have only had this problem of hacked accounts once in the 10+ years of using the interweb but once was enough to prompt me to alter my settings.

[AshG]

being an it geek i have allways used different passwords for all things of importance e.g accounts with admin access etc.

what most dont realise is that the poeple who own/run forums can retrieve a users password if they know how to open up the correct table and extract the data.

I suspect the attack was from a person that had full access to another forum database to extract the password that chris used. unfortunatly chris's password was the same on all forums and unfortunatly on this forum it was an admin account.

[thewinker]

Originally Posted by AshG

being an it geek i have allways used different passwords for all things of importance e.g accounts with admin access etc.

what most dont realise is that the poeple who own/run forums can retrieve a users password if they know how to open up the correct table and extract the data.

Not actually true. Most systems use a forward encryption system to ensure passwords are not stored in clear text. The only way to recover would be by brute force, trying every combination, but that could take weeks or even months.

[mr henderson]

Originally Posted by thewinker

Not actually true. Most systems use a forward encryption system to ensure passwords are not stored in clear text. The only way to recover would be by brute force, trying every combination, but that could take weeks or even months.

Would that apply to all systems, though, even if they were quite old?