> >Yes, e-gold is BIG business and as such it is utterly > >INEXCUSABLE that they do not have 24/7 live tech support > >and are not working their a**es off making our e-gold > >accounts opaque to hackers. I know of one person > >who had I5K removed from his account, and just > >this week two people I know have had attempts at > >hacking their e-gold accounts, in one case > >rendering it useless for spends. > > If you click on every untrusted executable sent to you, > there's nothing that e-gold [or anyone else] could do. > It's called evolution in action. Actually, it's something that could probably happen to any of us, if there is such a thing as a trojan horse which will email our passwords to some thief, somewhere. In order to wire money from my CompuBank account, I need to do this: 1) Login with a 10-Digit UserID that only I know about AND a password of my choosing. 2) Answer a random personal question. 3) Enter a second password to transfer the money. 4) Answer a call-back at my number. Fundamentally, E-Gold should offer at least another two tiers of protection; whereby small spends and balances use one password; larger spends use another password; and the account information is protected by a third password. The user could choose to set all passwords identically, or he could choose separate passwords for these functions. The call-back function is great, but I ask for too much. Another great security feature would be positive handshaking, whereby a spend is allowed to be revocable until the receiver picks it up with a password of the senders choice. This would eliminate any concerns about sending a lot of money to the wrong e-gold account. The sender could revoke the spend if the receiver doesn't have the password to pick it up. The way e-gold is now is that it's a one-password-uses-all type of system and this is a bit unsettling for someone who wants to keep a lot of money in it. I found myself just yesterday, checking my balance on a University computer. Who knows where that's been? Craig --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
