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All the eggs in one basket

All the eggs in one basket

Posted Jul 27, 2007 8:47 UTC (Fri) by zzxtty (guest, #45175)
In reply to: All the eggs in one basket by khim
Parent article: Thunderbird to find new home as Mozilla Foundation focuses on Firefox (MozillaZine)

"WebMail has big plus too: it's usable via Internet kiosks or via any other computer with Web-browser"

Would you seriously trust a 3rd party computer in this day and age? I have a complete aversion to entering usernames and passwords into computer I do not own. You have absolutly no idea what's installed on the machine, software or hardware (I dont buy the personal bootable CD as a serious privicy option given you have no control over the hardware). It always amazes me when I go on holiday to remote places, when you get to a town people run into the nearest internet cafe to check their hotmail, I bet most of these machines are running hacked versions of windows, with no security, and probably full of spyware...


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All the eggs in one basket

Posted Jul 27, 2007 12:05 UTC (Fri) by cate (subscriber, #1359) [Link]

Surely, but there is a partial workaround: one-time password (but it don't work for real-time trojans). OTOH it is simpler to install and configure own IMAP client for everyday usage than using a OTP


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