Has anybody else had this happen?

I just checked my BOINC account as I do every morning about this time. I have 4 machines here in my home and one farm machine in Texas. When I checked the stats on the Texas machine up poped a Duron machine with a domain or owner named Michael. I looked at it for a few seconds but I was so surprised that I hit the back button. Then I tried to find it again but its gone. My 5 machines are all Intel.

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Dave Nelson

Someone could have entered a wrong digit in the "password" section and accidently put it on your account, then looking for it on their own account and not finding it detached and reatached to the proper account.

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Sounds reasonable. In fact, I can't think of any other reason.

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Dave Nelson

> Someone could have entered a wrong digit in the "password" section and
> accidently put it on your account, then looking for it on their own account
> and not finding it detached and reatached to the proper account.
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Hi Mikey,

This looks like a security flaw to me.
Iff someone can logon into another account
by entering a wrong digit accidentely or not,
this person can also read/change the settings.
He/She will also know the IP and domain_name.
And can do some other noughty things with it.

Right?

Greetings
Screbilde

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"The FUTURE is only a PARTICLE away from the PRESENT and the PAST."

> > Someone could have entered a wrong digit in the "password" section and
> > accidently put it on your account, then looking for it on their own
> account
> > and not finding it detached and reatached to the proper account.
> >
>
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> Hi Mikey,
>
> This looks like a security flaw to me.
> Iff someone can logon into another account
> by entering a wrong digit accidentely or not,
> this person can also read/change the settings.
> He/She will also know the IP and domain_name.
> And can do some other noughty things with it.
>
> Right?
I just checked and my password is 32 characters, how long is yours?
Mine is a mix of numbers and letters, mine has no caps just small letters and numbers.
I figure the computer dreamed it up with an algorithym and therefore the same formula was used to generate all or at least most of the passwords on here. Meaning that it COULD be somewhere near each other.

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