LadyPact
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ORIGINAL: crumpets I doubt I have ever once given Collarspace or Fetlife my real email, so, um, what are they gonna do with [email protected] ? I'm not talking about the email you entered when you signed up for the site. I'm talking about the email that you send and receive through this site. Different thing. quote:
In order to make sense to each other, we must strive to SEPARATE wholly different issues: 1. Any real information in the public profile (e.g., your real birthdate or full name or zip code) 2. Any real information in the mail system (e.g., your phone number or picture or whom you converse with and what about) 3. Your login credentials (e.g., your password). I agree that we have to separate the issues. The original of the thread started with the lack of security for login. Some of the other stuff that's being discussed is pretty much normal thread drift. Most of my contributions to this thread involve #2 above because even with secure log in, no matter what you do, you can't prevent Admin access. quote:
To each his/her/its own, but I never give any real information in the public profile, but I almost always give true information in the mail system to people I care about meeting, and, I certainly care greatly about my login credentials being protected by encryption. And the bold is exactly why your information is not secure. Unless the person who received your email (with your personal information in it) deletes it after reading it, that email stays in the mail system for a year. Not all Admin with highest level access will read emails between members but we know that at least some of them did. quote:
I don't even know what birthday I have given to ANY site, since I have never given any site my real birthday. I can't see why anyone would EVER give their real birthday. But, I'm mostly worried about the login/password credentials which are available for the taking on Collarspace for anyone near enough to you to take them. Once they have your login credentials, they have everything. You don't think Admin can reset login credentials? It wouldn't look like anything odd to most regular members. The very next time somebody writes a thread on the forums about not being able to access their account and they are told to write Support for help, ask them what Support did to get them back in. quote:
I too have failed in this regard. I have given people my home address in the past so that they could come and swim nekked in my pool, and it was fun, but now my home address is out there for the taking if that person doesn't use encryption (don't worry - she taught me some things about encryption that I still use today!). It was a scam. They deserve the lawsuits. But that's a different topic because the site itself was hacked. Yes. Different topic. I think the AM thing scared a lot of people. quote:
While I would think CS is ripe for a similar hack, this thread isn't about that. This thread is mostly about the lack of basic protection for your login and password on CS. The question really becomes will the site invest the money to make the change. I'm just going with the odds by saying no. If I turned out to be wrong, I'd be pleasantly surprised but I'm not holding my breath, either. quote:
How do you guys know all this? I don't have a clue what the admins say or do. You both must have a red telephone in your bedroom that they don't want to give me. (jk) I know you were kidding but I'll put something here, anyway. Long term members here sometimes know more than other people realize. One small piece of information might be known to regular member X and another known by regular member Y. Just like most of us didn't know what was happening when A**** was LMIC, as regular members started talking, some things kind of got figured out after the fact. Things that we thought were strange at the time but made more sense as information came in later. Edited to fix the dang quote feature, yet again.
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