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September 25, 2006 at 5:15 am in reply to: Yahoo!’s Newest Feature to Prevent Password Theft #150830TimRockMember
@hatedjealousy 207827 wrote:
I really don’t see any possible way they can duplicate your seal, unless they have complete access to your computer, in which, you have a way bigger problem than them taking your Yahoo! id’s. Plus i’ve seen my fair share of fake Yahoo! log-in pages meant for phishing and NONE have duplicated my seal. 😉
There is other ways to take people’s id’s other than phishing. I am not going to go into detail about how, but there is both ways and programs people use to figure out another person’s password. And the seal is only meant to protect you from Phishing by creating a seal which you choose on your computer, which is why i find it hard to believe they could duplicate that seal.
But if you insist they can do this, as a warning to all: Always look at the link in your address bar to make sure it says Yahoo!. Also a geocities site does not require log-in, so do not log-in unless you are trying to access your page.
The seal doesnt prevent password theft.So if there are more ways to steal passwords by the flaws Yahoo! has,WHY doesnt Yahoo! do anthing about it?
September 24, 2006 at 5:51 am in reply to: Yahoo!’s Newest Feature to Prevent Password Theft #150829TimRockMember@hatedjealousy 207778 wrote:
The seal isn’t meant to protect your password from crackers who steal passwords that way. 😉
It’s actually meant to stop phishing (prevents you from logging in into a fake Yahoo! log-in page which is a way some people use to get id’s/passwords.)
And i don’t mean to sound mean, but you basically are asking for your id’s to be taken or else you would have stopped going to that specific room… Especially that last time in which you TOLD them to take your name, The seal won’t stop that and isn’t meant to…
I dont think you understand.The way they stole the names are by the fake web pages but the they can duplicate the seal.so my point is that it doesnt work.
so what do you mean by saying@hatedjealousy 207778 wrote:
“The seal isn’t meant to protect your password from crackers who steal passwords that way. ;)“ what way are you referring to?
September 23, 2006 at 8:29 am in reply to: Yahoo!’s Newest Feature to Prevent Password Theft #150828TimRockMemberI had several unimportant yahoo accounts/names stolen from me by a few people and they flaunted it to me in a yahoo chatroom. I guess just kids trying to impress people while acting imature talking under MY name inwhich they stole.
Anyway…i completely reformated my hard drive,used the sign-in seal after making a new Yahoo! account/name then IMed all of my old names and told them to try and take this new name i made and the next day they stole it.
Yahoo is very far behind what they are trying to keep up on.Case in point,they need to shoot for a better solution.People can also devert Yahoo! users entering a chatroom to a bogus chatroom that looks like an official yahoo site.
My suggestion is to not use Yahoo!for anything important.if you are then you are skating on thin ice.
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