On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:24:20 -0400, Scott Ford wrote:

>One of the things you can do, I just did, was Create a text 
>or image seal ...it's stored on your computer

The Yahoo "Sign-in seal" is just an image (or text) that is stored 
on your computer.  When you go to the Yahoo login page, it 
displays your image if it can find it.  Then you look at it to make 
sure it is really your sign-in seal.  Its purpose is to give you 
assurance that the page where you are entering your password 
is actually a Yahoo page.  You can also do that by checking 
what site the page is from.

Yahoo promotes it as a way to protect your password.  All it 
really does is to give you another verification that you entering 
your information on the yahoo site rather than a phishing site.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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