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Identity theft bulboy1 09-24-2007
Posted by on September 24, 2007, 8:55 am
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Anyone know of any identity theft issues relating to Gmail? Can
someone get hold of your identity and use it to contact my own
contacts?


Posted by Mello on October 7, 2007, 11:18 am
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On Sep 24, 5:55 am, bulb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Anyone know of any identity theft issues relating to Gmail? Can
> someone get hold of your identity and use it to contact my own
> contacts?

I think you should be fine if you use a wired connection and if you
are using firefox with the "Better Gmail" plugin. It has an option to
force https connections.
Oh, and watch that machine because there is always the "Keep me logged
in" feature and "remember password" feature that most browsers have.

I have not heard of identity theft issues relating to gmail yet. You
can always download your contact list as a csv file and erase
everything in gmail.

If someone also knows your email address and they know who you are
contacting, they can always spoof email which is really easy to do off
of an open smtp relay. The majority of email users don't know how to
trace an email to see who it really came from.

hope this answers your questions.

Mello


Posted by zonealarmforcefield on October 15, 2007, 7:03 pm
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Hey, if you're worried about identity theft in gmail, or just generally,
I think that Zone Alarm Force Field might be a good program for you to
try. i'm working with the company to find users that might benefit from
it. Zone Alarm is a very reputable internet security company and our new
browser-based program, Force Field, asks as a barrier between you and
the internet, so keyloggeres, spyware, phishing, etc. can't get through
to your computer. If you'd like to learn more or even try our free beta
demo, it would be the perfect solution to your concerns.

Good luck to you!
~Lauren
'www.zonealarm.com/forcefield' (http://www.zonealarm.com/forcefield)


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Posted by Straight Talk on October 16, 2007, 1:16 am
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:03:00 -0400, zonealarmforcefield

>
>Hey, if you're worried about identity theft in gmail, or just generally,
>I think that

>Zone Alarm Force Field

Yeah, right. Let's go sci-fi buzzword BS'ing...

>might be a good program for you to try.

>i'm working with the company to find users that might benefit from
>it.

Surprise...

>Zone Alarm is a very reputable internet security company

since when???

>and our new browser-based program, Force Field, asks as a barrier between you
and
>the internet, so keyloggeres, spyware, phishing, etc. can't get through
>to your computer.

What utter BS. Take your sales crap and go learn something about the
real world instead of making a fool of yourself...

>If you'd like to learn more or even try our free beta
>demo, it would be the perfect solution to your concerns.

Crap, crap, crap....

>
>Good luck to you!

He'll sure need it in the hands of clueless marketing guys.

>~Lauren
>'www.zonealarm.com/forcefield' (http://www.zonealarm.com/forcefield)
>
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Posted by xpyttl on October 16, 2007, 11:23 am
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> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:03:00 -0400, zonealarmforcefield

>>Good luck to you!
>
> He'll sure need it in the hands of clueless marketing guys.

Hey, don't be too hard on him. A lot of marketing types actually believe
this stuff.

..



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