Re: Possible solution to losing items to account hackers

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From: Polarhound
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:57

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On 3/29/2011 5:30 PM, John Gordon wrote:
> In<ULrkp.47$vT3.8@newsfe06.iad>  Polarhound<polar...@comcast.net>  writes:
>
>> If they can get software onto your system to steal your Rift account,
>> adding an email skimmer/logger is no large feat.
>
> I disagree.  All Rift clients are the same, so you only need one piece
> of malware to skim any Rift password.  But there are hundreds of email
> clients -- it would be difficult to have malware which recognizes all
> of them.
>

You don't have to recognize ALL of them, only the major ones.  Even 
then, the clients themselves really don't matter since it would just 
need to monitor for raw traffic common to all emails.

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