At 6:54 PM +0200 11/20/03, Danny Van den Berghe wrote: >> ... >> >I am looking for a really simple way to prevent theft from my account. >> ... >> >> Three words: "Buy a Mac!" :) (I couldn't resist, and JP would >> have said it anyway!) ... >A Mac or whatever doesn't solve the question at all.
Actually, long hard experience suggests that the users of alternative operating systems (or at least browser/email combinations) have WAAAAAY fewer security hassles, for whatever reason (there might be a few). >98% of the people don't understand anything at all about how computers work >and how safe is the passphrase. >Their question is not how they can keep their password safe. > >Their question is: what happens when somebody manages to get into my >account? ... Right now, good security hygiene is by-far your best defense, but prevention has always beat "cures." >Forced user confirmation by the customer via a link in an email, like George >suggests, would achieve the same, but I am not so in favor of e-gold emails >with links in them. ... Me either. Email is an insecure medium, and if I want to use an insecure medium to do something, why not let it be AIM or ICQ? (Both services are owned by AOL/Time-Warner, believe it or not!) so I can at least have close-to-instant speed with my insecurity! Lots of people (like my brother) are lucky to check their emails once a week! JMR --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
