> ... > >And of course an email will warn you that the payment delay setting has been > >changed in your account. > > > > I'm dubious of the benefits of this feature, it seems to me that > the LACK of any delay is part of e-gold's charm, but...
No problem , I'll use a second account with no delay setting , if I want to use that 'charm'... > >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!) > > > Or at least get very-good at updating whatever you use, which > these days can be automated in most cases. And for heaven's > sake, if you're hitting a secure site, *DON'T* use IE! Other > browsers abound, go spend five minutes and try one today! A > lot of those fake-site URLs don't even load for me in Mozilla... A Mac or whatever doesn't solve the question at all. 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? They skip the entire login procedure and want to know what happens when somebody else gets in (no matter how), and the answer to that question will determine how safe they see it to keep larger amounts in the system. They assume an account on the internet CAN be cracked (and they are right), and they want to know 'what if...' They assume somebody can come in their account by mistake of the server... What are the safety mechanism built into e-gold once the 'thief' is already in the account? That's what most of the users want to know before they put money in an account on the internet. And E-gold has to answer : absolutely zero. Not even an email that notifies them if there was activity in the account... Nothing that stops or delays the thief to take the gold somewhere else... Completely nothing.. The gold can simply be taken away to an account with false ID, and cashed out anywhere on the globe.. Nearly impossible to get it back. And a Mac won't change this... So, no safety mechanisms. Then , how can it be a surpise that we see an average balance of less than 3 gram in e-gold ? You can have my passwords for my internet bank, for paypal, for my brokerage account, and there is very little you will be able to do there without me finding out and stopping your eventual attempts to steal. Email notifications and payment delay option would put e-gold in the same safety category. Thiefs can be detected and stopped with it. 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. It is also time consuming with these confirmation links... Danny --- 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.
