With all the dramas these days surrounding virus's, worms, Trojans etc
everyone has a different opinion of what best practice is to ensure total
security on your computer. So I have a few questions for those in the DGC
community since we are all targeted more than anyone I know, and since there
While not directly concerning digital currencies, I nevertheless thought
it wise to inform the list of a security advisory I saw yesterday
concerning Network Associates' PGP software, or more specifically the
Outlook plug-in part. Since some of you use PGP on your work computers,
there is always
Does e-gold still lock accounts after a number of false password tries to
access an account? Just saw a post in another forum from someone who said
they tried it for hours and couldn't get the account to lock. If they no
longer lock accounts, wouldn't this make it possible for someone to run a
Gentlemen,
I have been working on an article on how to protect your e-gold passwords,
but in light of the recent discussion, I'll post some of the stuff early.
As someone pointed out, using the same password on multiple websites is the
best way to get your money stolen, but Trojans that
Gold Money now allows security certificates that are installed in the users
browser to authenticate transactions.
My question is: how easy is it for someone who can gain access to the users
computer (either physically or through a trojan) to COPY a security
certificate and install it on another
We've been over this before, and my response is the same: It does not solve
the real problem, which is that a fool and his password are soon parted. The
only effect of such a system would be to change the nature of the scams by
which passwords are stolen, _and_ it wouldn't foil a keyboard sniffer
