It seems that one can find out all google accounts associated to a recovery address by simply selecting "I don't know my username" in the google recovery menu.
If the hacker would have known/used this, he could have had access to even more of Mr. Honan's stuff, provided he had more than one gmail accounts which used the same recovery address (and by the looks of it, I'm sure he would have daisy-chained that too).
Google is happy to deliver the associated accounts to the recovery address, with no obfuscation. There's not much hassle to reset those accounts and compromise them as well afterwards.
Although I understand its usefulness, using it for the wrong purpose can turn it against you.
I'm beginning to think recovery emails are bad too..
A pertinent subject. I found myself in a similar situations some days ago.
I had GTA 4 since it appeared in 2008; was at 55% of the story. Didn't play it for ~1 year. Uninstalled it yesterday.
I had Assassin's Creed 2, almost at the end of the story (I think). Uninstalled it yesterday.
The same happened for Mass Effect 2. Played about 40% of it and uninstalled it.
I played Star Wars Force Unleashed 2, uninstalled it and returned it after a few hours.
I used to love games and always told myself I'll be a gamer even when I grow up. Now that I have grown up, I don't have the patience anymore. Add the repetitiveness of games and glitches, bugs, boring stories, going to work 5 days a week... well, priorities change in time it seems.
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It seems that one can find out all google accounts associated to a recovery address by simply selecting "I don't know my username" in the google recovery menu. If the hacker would have known/used this, he could have had access to even more of Mr. Honan's stuff, provided he had more than one gmail accounts which used the same recovery address (and by the looks of it, I'm sure he would have daisy-chained that too). Google is happy to deliver the associated accounts to the recovery address, with no obfuscation. There's not much hassle to reset those accounts and compromise them as well afterwards. Although I understand its usefulness, using it for the wrong purpose can turn it against you. I'm beginning to think recovery emails are bad too..
soon to come: Virtualized Adobe Reader which runs in it's own kernel space, with GUI, multiuser and multitasking support!
I had GTA 4 since it appeared in 2008; was at 55% of the story. Didn't play it for ~1 year. Uninstalled it yesterday.
I had Assassin's Creed 2, almost at the end of the story (I think). Uninstalled it yesterday.
The same happened for Mass Effect 2. Played about 40% of it and uninstalled it.
I played Star Wars Force Unleashed 2, uninstalled it and returned it after a few hours.
I used to love games and always told myself I'll be a gamer even when I grow up. Now that I have grown up, I don't have the patience anymore. Add the repetitiveness of games and glitches, bugs, boring stories, going to work 5 days a week... well, priorities change in time it seems.