FYI: Steam accounts were hacked (around 10th November)

[SilverWarior]

And like i said, if you fake your IP you can't hack, only DoS.

Fake IP? What are you talking about?

I can prove the subnetting restriction with example: From your home computer, it is not possible to directly connect to local universitys internal network even if you fake your own IP network mask same. That is why schools have SSH or VPN login systems.

That's becouse in this case your computer doesn't physicly belongs to the same network. Computers belonging to local network actualy belongs to same physical network and acces the web trough router wich transmits local network data to WAN network and vice versa. In a way router is come kind of a bridge between LAN and WAN networks.
But if you have some system wich needs to run on miltiple servers wich are spreaded troughout the globe you can't connect all theese servers to same physical network wich means that your network is somehow exposed to internet and this also increases its vulnerability.

About easy passwords people make, ok, could be that large amount of people try to make them as easy as possible for them. However this topic was about hackers trying to guess them. I have been trying to make it clear that most systems will not let them try it many times in a row. They have to guess it right in 10 attempts in most cases. I don't want to try how many times Steam actually allows. Login policies for admins can be built even stricter.

Yes this topic is about hackers and what do you mean what have been hackers thinking even before they have done the hacking. One of the subjects was definitly thinking of whatkindoff passwords are most offtenly used. What do you think how was dictionary approach off breaking passwords developed in a first place?
And yes most systems have some safty feture wich prevents quesing passwords by trying thousands off different passwords in a short period. But since most of theese passwords is the same for longer periods the hacker actualy has so much time as that period lasts. Becouse of this there are a lot off systems wich actualy forces their users to change the passwords regulary. But since most humans have difficultis remembering their passwords they actually just use the same base password and just ads number a the end (predictable pattern wich makes guesing easier).