Generally, hackers will get your password through other means, such as through malware installed on your machine, or through fooling you into entering the password into an incorrect site. Trying every password is too easy to spot and stop.... unless you have a stupidly short password
Gmail offers 2 factor authentication, which is a reason to switch in itself in my book. If you have a smart phone like an iphone, android or blackberry, you can (and should) turn it on. Better security than my bank offers me, and I don't pay them a penny.
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Date: 2012-02-06 12:47 am (UTC)Gmail offers 2 factor authentication, which is a reason to switch in itself in my book. If you have a smart phone like an iphone, android or blackberry, you can (and should) turn it on. Better security than my bank offers me, and I don't pay them a penny.
Here are more links and more wordage on this than you probably ever wanted:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/your-gmail-hacking-finale-official-advice-from-google/237734/
http://icrontic.com/article/how-to-enable-two-factor-authentication-on-your-google-account
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html