Re: [OT] Live Journal

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:03:26 +0000, Romauld
<trap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Recently, a script from Wood Avens arrived, in which they said:
>
>: My current hypothesis is that their server is overloaded - or rather
>: is too small to accommodate the level of demand.
>
>Rumour has it their security system has been changed. Observation
>suggests that this is the case, due to the username.lj.com form
>now being available on all accounts rather than only on paid ones:
>if a security design has been altered, then all cookies and other
>stored security information will have been voided.
>
>I had to get 'em to email me my password to make sure I was doing
>it right, and then logged from http://www.livejournal.com/login.bml
>and everything worked fine. I suspect that had I been more confident
>of my password I could have done without the first step.

Hmm. I always type in my password anyway, rather than allowing the
system to remember it. And that doesn't explain the times when I
actually have got in recently, in the same old ordinary way, albeit at
antisocial times of night, nor the times when I've stayed logged in
and come back to it after an hour and it won't let me do anything.

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