Wednesday August 17, 2005 at 03:19 am

Wednesday August 17, 2005 at 03:19 am

How secure do you think you are?

So how do you know someone is reading your email without you knowing

1) Simple invest less than $15 and
register a domain name that has something to do with them

2) Put a simple website about them of course (good or bad)

3) Don’t tell anyone about it.

4) Wait for them to call (usually within 3 hours of the domain being registered and site being uploaded, you will likely get a call/email/text message with you whining like a baby that you put a picture of them online that you got from another website without their permission and threatening to call a lawyer about the whole ordeal, claiming slander.

This is what happened with lazyliz.com, now you may be wondering “well what if they just used Google the name or something similar and came across the website”. Good
question and this will likely be the most common rebuttal when confronting this person as to how they found out. Well there are several reasons why this would not and can not happen, with the exception of one rare and I do mean rare situation.

1) When a domain is registered, new domains and changes to domains may take up to 4-8 hours for .COM and .NET domains and about 24-48 hours for all other domain extensions to become effective. This is due to the number of networks involved, and the fact that those networks are controlled by several different agencies. This delay applies to all domains and all Registrars and is called Domain Propagation.
a. Thus finding the site by guessing that it’s registered simply wouldn’t work as the Internet would not be updated and would not have a record of where the domain needs to go, for at least the 1st few hours.

b. A 2nd point on this would be, why? Why would you be looking for a domain of this nature in the 1st place unless of course you were trying to cover your ass about something?

2) When you register a domain an email is sent to your account notify you of the registration and any subsequent changes to the domain, such as adding a set of name servers. Name servers are the servers that a hosting provider uses to connect your domain with the hosting space being used to showcase your website.

a. Once again, this can only be seen after the domain is propagated

b. Once again only one email is sent to confirm the change

c. If the domain is registered with privacy or through a Proxy service, only the Registrar’s company information

It’s pretty safe to say that the only way they would find out is either with unauthorized access to the email account used to confirm the domains registration or direct unauthorized access to the user account used to register the domain name to begin with.

What does this mean; it means that someone has either brute forced their way into one or both of these accounts to which I own and even possibly more.

You may be asking yourself “Well how does that have anything to with anything”, well when the person calls you to bitch about the site you registered claiming they are going to call a lawyer, this is your defense, amongst many others that are commonly available

1) The views and opinions expressed on the site are simply that views and opinions, there’s nothing wrong with that

2) If a picture is used on the site, that is already readily available on the internet there’s not much room for the use of the picture on another site, especially if the site is hot linked (meaning the picture is not on the same server the site is being hosted on, but rather html code is used to reference back to the original location of the picture in order for it to be displayed). Most free hosting servers don’t like people to do this as it eats up bandwidth if the picture becomes popular

And how could this possibly have happened, quite simply…

…I made the mistake of logging into to my accounts from a computer that has, not once but several times had its security measures compromised with items such as “key loggers” and “password decryption software”, previous to my use of it.

Granted the initial purpose of these programs is to keep an eye on what transpires on your computer when others use it, basically it’s meant to keep the system its installed on safe, however thee person in question took it upon themselves to invade the privacy of those around her and used it for her own gain and knowledge.

This information was confirmed using the same technology but housed, secured and operated by service in which I have paid for, mainly my domain registrar and my email provider. One of the benefits of paying for services I suppose.

Each time you log into a web based email account your IP address is logged onto the services main server. This is used for several reasons, but mainly to prevent people form logging into the same account form multiple locations trying to hide their true location. This is why you can’t log into yahoo messenger from one location and then again from
another, same goes for AIM.

Now that this person has accessed my email and /or my registrar account I can only assume she has access to other sites/services as well.

As I stated before this is not the 1st time this person has done something like this, and ironically, she would have no idea on how to do any of it if it weren’t for a few of us showing her how to do it to begin with. Though I used to a very vengeful person, some years ago I realized it does more harm than good, and with that caveat I told her that if she persisted and what she found was an amusing thing to do it would come back to haunt her, as you can see years later it has.

You see I can change my passwords, because she never locked me out of the accounts, she only used the information within them, I can even move accounts into other locations, but a website, showcasing ones level of intelligence or lack thereof, after trying to demean others because she is unhappy, and unfulfilled in life, that will go alot longer, and with no repercussions as the information provided is of a general consensus and not based on one’s sole opinion, and that is why when all is said and done, LazyLiz.com will continue to be there, shining it’s bright light exposing the hidden truth, that for those that sit around doing nothing but bashing others; by practicing their witty responses all day as to be perfectly timed to whatever posing questions that could possibly be asked of them; that in the end they still look like a fucking idiot, who sits around being a lazy ass all day, spending other peoples money and trying to live life through talking about other peoples lives instead of living your own.