Microsoft wont let me in my email anymore

[bd139]

I’m using xfce. That seems fine. I agree that most of the desktops are shit though.

[JanJansen]

To be affected by it, you have to be a minor or you have lied.

I always go for the oldest age available,
at the moment you can choose up to 1 januari 1905.
Maybe when i registered this email i selected year 1900 ?

[ebastler]

I always go for the oldest age available,
at the moment you can choose up to 1 januari 1905.
Maybe when i registered this email i selected year 1900 ?

That would explain why Microsoft has disabled your email.
Their algorithms have determined that you must be dead by now. 

[Fungus]

I always go for the oldest age available,
at the moment you can choose up to 1 januari 1905.
Maybe when i registered this email i selected year 1900 ?

That would explain why Microsoft has disabled your email.
Their algorithms have determined that you must be dead by now. 

Was it two days ago? That's when the only remaining person from the 19th century died:

https://bnonews.com/site/index.php/2018/04/oldest-living-person-nabi-tajima-dead-at-117/

If so, you have to admire Microsoft's diligence in patching security holes.

[mikerj]

I'm not a Linux user so I hope you can explain how using Linux on your own PC prevents theft of your personal information from third party servers?

Well, usually it goes like this:

You surf some legitimate sites and got hit by a drive by Javascript injection attack via some ad, don't need to go to shaddy sites anymore nowadays,

I use a script blocker.

eventually open a PDF file for an old part, found somewhere on on the net from a Chinese site and you AdobeReader is not patched or is a zero-day exploit. The payload is downloaded, launched and take fully the control of your PC, in a very intrusive mode,  may say.
Now your PC is on of the millions of windows remote controlled PCs.

I don't use any Adobe products.

First the newly joined machine is searched for any information that may prove useful to the bootnet masters, do you have security clearance, do work for a government agency or important company, if not you can still mine some coins and do some DDOS attacks, also if you do your banking your account details and passwords are most welcome.

None of this ?

Don't worry, we'll do a browser hijack, and instead of outlook.com now your saved email page goes to cracker.com phising page and if you give the CC details, score !!!

I don't use web email, so it would have to be an email client hijack.

None of this would happen when using Linux, because:

 - The normal user account is not a privileged account, no programs are installed without your consent and even with your consent is difficult  .
 - Reduced attack surface due to better security architecture and not the least because the Linux distributions are fragmented and isn't worth building personalized exploits.
 - No Adobe Reader anymore (big win), rarely the flash works.

So, in my experience I've never ever heard of some Linux desktop remote exploit, browser hijacking and similar stuff, of course the human factor will still click links in the mails and go to PäyPal.com, but this unavoidable.

 Do you want to know more ? 

 DC1MC
 

Yes, I would like you to answer my original question, rather than trying to divert the issue.

If a hacker compromises a third party server holding personal data (as happens quite frequently), how will running Linux on my desktop/laptop prevent the hacker gaining access to my data?  For instance, back in 2013 when Yahoo had around 1 billion user accounts compromised, were all the users running Linux protected?

[MT]

If you can’t access your email account, get information on how to recover your hacked account.
I dont know what to do, any advice for me ?, i am a emailless person now.
thanks

https://protonmail.com/

The only third part hacker today is the conglomerate of CIA, NSA, DOD,IRS, FBI.

[metrologist]

Just a little offtopic wow: Are people (parents) these days so stupid and naive, to make their children email (or whatever else) accounts, at the big boys companies? Or to use cloud for your personal data? Just pure wow... I never thought that there is so many naive people these days. But as less and less people understand the basics of IT, it kind of makes sense (and profit for the big boys).

Kind of sad.

People? Yes. Not all parents. Around here at 6th grade, the kids all get chrome books or ipads, and fresh accounts for them. Schools are also using sites like shutterfly to host daily in-class photo-ops and extracurricular activities. More free website services are engaged more and more for these kids. They all soon get cell phones with unlimited text and photo messaging and gobs of data to freely surf all the most bestest sites online...

I see, the best way to protect privacy is for more and more large conglomerates to request more and more of your personal info. 

[JanJansen]

Was it two days ago? That's when the only remaining person from the 19th century died:

https://bnonews.com/site/index.php/2018/04/oldest-living-person-nabi-tajima-dead-at-117/

If so, you have to admire Microsoft's diligence in patching security holes.

Thats right then, very funny.
Artificial intelligence dont likes humans.

[Distelzombie]

Get a proton mail: www.protonmail.com
It's two factor authentication makes it, I guess, hard to impossible to get into that account even if you hijack the browser and login credentials. It is, for a change, advised to use google authenticator on a smartphone.
I use that for all important things and a GMX mail for all the other stuff, like this forum.

You'll also get a protonVPN account at the same time. I use that for my smartphone as a always on vpn. It's free version is fast enough. Still has 50Mbit through netherlands or USA.
If I want more privacy, I boot up Parrot Sec in a VM on my laptop, connect to the VPN and then use it's anonsurf function to route my traffic through the Tor network. After that I still have several MB download and unimpeded upload. (12Mbit. For some reason )

That's very easy to do, too.

[JanJansen]

I dont need a smartphone, just email.

[bd139]

Try fastmail. Decent email service costs money. Buy a domain and you are mobile if fastmail turns to crap. I've used them for about 3 years no with zero problems.

[JanJansen]

I made a new gmail acount with no problems.
Time to make all new forum profiles sooner or later.

They can hack my mail all they want, google can read all my mails no problem, as long as i can read the mail myself also.

[ebastler]

Time to make all new forum profiles sooner or later.

Why would you need to do that? Can't you just change passwords and email addresses in your existing profiles?

[JanJansen]

Then i cant read the verification mail.
I would like it, only then i am afraid i will lock up this account also.

[IanB]

Then i cant read the verification mail.
I would like it, only then i am afraid i will lock up this account also.

Why would you lock up an account? We still don't understand why your previous account got locked...

[ebastler]

Then i cant read the verification mail.
I would like it, only then i am afraid i will lock up this account also.

As long as you still know your forum profile's password, most forum software should enable you to set a new password without sending out a verification email. And if you change the email address connected to the forum profile, while they might send out a verification email to check that the new email address is valid, that would go to the new address you just submitted.

Hence, no need to create a new forum account from scratch just because your old email account has died on you (for whatever reason). 

[Distelzombie]

I dont need a smartphone, just email.


I made a new gmail acount with no problems.
Time to make all new forum profiles sooner or later.

They can hack my mail all they want, google can read all my mails no problem, as long as i can read the mail myself also.

You can obviously use it without a smartphone. You can even set it to require two normal passwords instead of just one.

It isn't as easy with these mailbox providers as you think. For example: Spam detection. Not of the mails in your in-box, but spam detection of your outgoing mail, in the in-box of your recipient.
Using this site https://www.mail-tester.com/ we can test if our outgoing mails would be detected as spam. (SpamAssassin) You just send a usual mail, with subject and body (Needs more than one word in both. What words to use is irrelevant) to that email shown there, press check-your-score and read the result.
The result shown on this website is identically to what the result of the SpamAssassin validation of a mailbox provider would be. (If they use SpamAssassin. But it's Open Source, so, who doesn't?) The result would be something like "6.7/10". The lower the score out of ten - the "spam"ier your mails look to spam filters.
(Usually called "X-Spam-Status: No/1.4/5.0" in the source code of a received email, where "5,0" is the threshold at which a mail is considered spam. The threshold varies with provider. "1.4" is the actual score of your mail and "no" means it is lower than the threshold.)
With this I could determine that my old email provider (GMX) produces outgoing emails that sometimes have a rating way into spam. It is even listed in SORBS! (that is a IPv4 blacklist)
With protonmail however, all emails always rate 10/10. Because they care about that. They also care about not reading your emails and archiving it for making profit via advertisement. (Encrypted inbox, p2p and keys) And it's free with no advertisements.

It also has a paid version with your own domains like bumfights@funny.vid. So you're not even stuck with bumfights@protonmail.com or bumfights@pm.me (Which you'll also get for free).
And you get a free 7 day trial of one of the, if not the best VPN service out there.

[JanJansen]

It seems i cannot enter my new gmail account anymore also.
They say they need a phone number, while i dont have a phone for that.

[Mr. Scram]

It seems i cannot enter my new gmail account anymore also.
They say they need a phone number, while i dont have a phone for that.

These fuckers want you to use phone numbers for everything nowadays. They won't use it to link data to other data, pinky promise!

[Jeroen3]

You can use a landline with google.

[JanJansen]

I also could go to some website to have a american phone number for free, then get the text message to that number and read it on the site, it exists, only it cost a bit of time and im lazy.

[IanB]

I also could go to some website to have a american phone number for free, then get the text message to that number and read it on the site, it exists, only it cost a bit of time and im lazy.

But why would you need an American phone number? Google mail is available in Europe. You have access to no local phone number in your home? Is it even possible for anyone to not have a mobile phone these days?

[bd139]

I don’t actually need a mobile phone.

You can activate gmail with a land line here. And AWS.

Really you can just get a prepaid credit card and buy a SIP/VoIP number for a week and use that if you want anonymity.

Or just use a different company! Lots of now questions asked ones out there.