The only reason anyone, anywhere, would need to know your email password
is to be able to use your email account. Not receive email, but use your
account.
I can't help but think something has been misunderstood somewhere, but
never enter your email password anywhere that isn't an email client or
something similar that you actually want to have full access to your
email. I'd be shocked if that's actually what iron realms wants,
honestly, but still. I never played any of their games though, so
there's that. I can think of no reason at all any gaming client would
want access to my email account, not just the address so it can email me
something. That'd be a hard nope.
On 4/4/2023 2:51 PM, Heather Seaman wrote:
I'm with Jude on this one. At least as far as malware is concerned. Google Play
Protect never flagged the mobile app as harmful and like I said, they wouldn't accept
the emai-password combo I tried to use, apparently because I didn't use the one
associated with said email but rather a new one I planned to use only for a Nexus
account. That's what I would do if I were signing up for, say, Amazon or Disney Plus;
each of them would get their own password, and that wouldn't be the same password
either. So I'm glad I couldn't set up a Nexus account, even if they have no nefarious
intentions themselves. Their Windows client is certainly triggering every alarm bell
in my head, although thankfully I had no trouble uinstalling the Android version. I
hope Mattias doesn't have to reset his machine just because I reached out to the list
for help; I appologize all over the place because, in trying to help me, he likely
compromised his info. On Apr 4, 2023 1:35 PM, Jude DaShiell
<[email protected]> wrote:
Not at all wild. You get a client that cannot be uninstalled on windows;
you've given up your email address and the password that goes with it, the
client and network is always on while you're on the internet, the server
gets your ip addresses, so it's a simple matter to reach directly into
your computer for some malware fun. Malware networks have done much more
with far less in the past.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Liam Erven wrote:
These are some pretty wild claims, do you have anything to back up these claims?
On Apr 4, 2023, at 11:52 AM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote:
That could be used to set up a bot net once all the compromised computers
got malware installed on them.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Heather Seaman wrote:
Then I won't be giving them a second chance. Guess I'm glad I didn't have success
creating an account. On Apr 4, 2023 8:25 AM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]>
wrote:
The people behind that mud intend to hack all machines and accounts that
sign up.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Heather Seaman wrote:
Let us know what you find, please. When I opened mx browser just now it opened the
documentation so I looked up creating an account and it said you have to use an email
address and "its" password,
the quotes are mine. I was using my email but with a different password that I
intended for use only with the Nexus app. Like I said, if you want to add
third-party muds like Alter Aeon, you have
to create an account so your game info can be stored on the Nexus servers. So
why would they need the password associated with my email account itself. I
wouldn't give that out to a shinpping site
or whatever, I'd create a site-specific password as I tried to do here. So
please do test this, on mobile if possible, and let us know what you find.
thanks, Mattias!
On Apr 4, 2023 3:02 AM, mattias <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks i have to test it
Sent from Mail for Windows
From: Heather Seaman
Sent: den 4 april 2023 08:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: [blind-gamers] Forget Nexus Mud App
A few weeks agoI wrote that I had found a new mud client for Android called
Nexus from Iron Realms Entertainment. Well in order to add third-party games to
the app you have to create a Nexus
account first consisting of an email address and a password. The first time I
tried, they were having server issues, I think, since I couldn't even access
the online client documentation.
When I tried again just now I kept being told that my email address was not a
valid email, even though I'm 100 percent sure I typed the address perfectly. So
I just now uninstalled the app.
And I have to say don't go there. So we're back to square 1 as far as playing
muds on Android is concerned. ininsighinin
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