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From: John Gordon
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:23

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In <CSxkp.103$sy5.68@newsfe22.iad> Polarhound <polar...@comcast.net> writes:

> > 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.

If the malware just reads your email over your shoulder and gets the coin
link url at the same time you do, that doesn't seem very threatening.
It wouldn't have time do do anything.

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From: John Gordon <gor...@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Possible solution to losing items to account hackers
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:23:57 +0000 (UTC)
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