Accessing another Google account

[Bob Williams]

Anyone recalling my battle with a Hudl1?

The Hudl owner tried to obtain reparation via House Insurance: no dice, said the company, just as I said they would. I have since battled my way through all her inaccurately-recollected versions of account names and passwords, finally managing to retrieve her account this afternoon. Only to discover just 6 photos, which I have managed to edit into legibility using Pixel in MyDrive. Was it worth it? – Yes, to judge by the beaming smile of a happy grandma. They were photos of grandchildren when very young.

I love it when a plan (eventually) comes together….

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Well done. On a side note for a few years now I have kept a small note book with other people’s account names and passwords in. When ever I setup someone else’s PC or phone I write down their details. When they come back to me months or years later and say they never had an account/password I at least have the satisfaction of proving they do/did !

[The Duke]

Like richard I keep all the U/N & P/W that people give to me, as they NEVER remember them.

 

[Bob Williams]

Yes That is what I do. I have a WH Smith A5 book that began life as an Alphabetised address book, all my own and others’ details in there, all website addresses, passwords etc. I long since ran out of WHS pages, so I created a document in OOfice: 2x A5 pages across a Landscaped A4 page, alpabetised text boxes with all those details. It was a slight PITA to set up, but once done I update it as new sites/details come up. Problem with the hudl lady was that someone else set it up for her, and that person lives some distance away. That person was the linked Recovery Email address, which caused delay in contacting and waiting for a Google 6-digit code. I have now set it up with a new password and a link to my email address, recorded in my book and accessed from my desktop, having had permission from her to do that. I always ask permission though: it’s a bit dangerous if you don’t, data laws being as they are.

Now she is looking for a device and will want me to set it up. As I said at the start of this pantomime, as she is a very nice person I don’t mind, but I have asked her to keep it quiet so that I don’t get any more calls for assistance. We see this lady every day, calling upon the vulnerable ones in our little community and helping them. Everyone except the dragon around the corner loves her, but the dragon is a nasty old she-dog whom no one likes.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[The Duke]

I keep mine on a Google keep, so I have access to them anywhere. As I’ve found its usually when I’m at someone’s house, they say “while your here, he member when you fixed ‘x’ it’s happened again” they never know the pw.

As Google keep is no way a secure way to store data, have my one way of semi obscuring them.

I could could keep them all nice and secure in my Last pass account, but to be frank, the owners of these accounts don’t even give a crap about there own data habits and accounts. so I’m not going out of my way, and cluttering my Last Pass account up with half my family and some friends credential.

I have a lax attitude to giving help to people these days. Usually it goes what’s your PW? I then check if I have it, if not, they get the option of a format and clean installation. Or go and pay someone. My sitting for free night after night fixing a pc for little thanks are over.

[Bob Williams]

“ … they get the option of a format and clean installation. Or go and pay someone. My sitting for free night after night fixing a pc for little thanks are over. ”

That’s my attitude as well now, Steve. One local has not read the letter that I delivered to all other 22 bungalows here, stating that deteriorating health means that I cannot give any more help to anyone. I asked him if he had read the letter: “Didn’t think you meant me, mate.”    -(Why is everyone my ‘mate’ when they want something)-        I said, “Was the letter addressed to you by name?”   -“Yes.”    -“Then who did you think it was meant for?”

Exit one (temporary) mate. Hope he tells everyone else who doesn’t think I meant them. :wacko:  :negative:

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[The Duke]

Lol.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

I am a bit naughty becacse I NEVER tell people I have a copy of their details. I always tell them its important for THEM to keep a copy because I won’t be able to help if they lose their details. Then I watch as they scribble them down on a never to be seen again scrap of paper ?

[The Duke]

So what we have discovered here is that us ‘geek’ between us hold all the keys!

[Bob Williams]

The Duke wrote:

So what we have discovered here is that us ‘geek’ between us hold all the keys!

 

I never doubted it. We are the real Rulers of the World! :yahoo:

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Ed P]

Read and enjoy BOFH original or ElRegs UK version, anyone who has worked in or managed data centres will know that these are only slightly exaggerated versions of the real-life people you cross at your peril!

Unfortunately most of these people are now located in India, which must make life REALLY enjoyable for the UK IT Management in (say) RBS. Anyone who has worked in India will know that they took bureaucracy from us and perfected it to the point that it is nearly impossible to make things happen unless they want it.

[Bob Williams]

Yes Ed, but Indian engineers work in the best traditions of British Victorian engineers: find the right tools and/or materials, or look for alternatives. –

https://tinyurl.com/jxardg2

‘Make do and mend’ I think covers it. India has taken best working practices from us, along with the bureaucracy. This is a nation to watch, they improvise and struggle under the pressure of 1.25 billion people, a large proportion of which possess an entrepeneurial streak and the ambition of a starving tiger. It is no coincidence that some of the highest-earning professionals in the UK are either Indian, or of Indian descent. It is also no coincidence that many millions of them suffer in their native land, under poverty worse than that of early Victorian Britain, with a rigid class tructure that their leaders are attempting to overcome.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Ed P]

Unfortunately in my experience anyone involved in a Joint Venture, or purchasing services in India is kept well away from any Engineers lest they be subverted by modern Western ideas. in addition 40% unfortunately still have a 70 years old Partition chip on their shoulder.

[Bob Williams]

That’s sad, Ed.

I can only speak of the ‘British’ Indians I know. Some are Hindu, one family is actually Christian, although the one amongst them that I know best, is a Sikh. All of them have friends in the Islamic community. A lot of that was caused by the older generation suffering being addressed for years as “P**i B*****ds”, no matter their origin, culture or beliefs. Here in this country.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[The Duke]

If they can make a curry, they can stay as long as they like. Even though most ‘Indians’ are from Bangladesh lol.

Love a Ruby.

[Bob Williams]

I can’t eat Curry, thanks to chicken wings on an HK street a long time ago. Did not listen to warnings, completely off my face after meeting two even drunker Russian sailors (bloody vodka!) and ate from the cheapest, nastiest street stall. Spent 3 days in the Sick Bay, every orifice leaking. Whenever I tried to eat curry after that, I came out in a rash and could crap through the eye of a needle at 50 paces. M.O. back at base, said I must be the only British Squaddie he ever knew who was allergic to curry. And I used to love the stuff.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[The Duke]

Nice, or should I say not nice.  had food poising once for a butty shop, never ate at one since.

The funny part is, dorris was pregnant at the time, and we was due to go out. I got home, as you said “leaked from both ends” I’m the bed! And she turned around and said I’d done it on purpose as I didn’t want to be seem out with her being g fat!

Women!

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