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reply to chrisretusn

Re: Facebook now wants your personal phone number....

reply to goalieskates

Agreed. With the number of massive hacks on the rise, it makes sense to be able to verify something outside of Facebook. Many people have lower tiered accounts compromised--say an email address and password.

The hackers then try that email and password in many different sites--many of us utilize the same password between sites (but shouldn't).

If you don't want to verify via SMS, don't. But it's a useful tool to have should you lose control of your email account.
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What do you mean by "lower tiered accounts"? How is an ISP's email account "lower tiered" than what?

I have not ever heard of my ISP's mail servers being hacked and my mail accounts (6-7 I think I have) being compromised. I've had this ISP for over 10 years.

Surely you don't mean that you believe a lot of users use the same passwords they have for their various ISP's mail accounts, where there has to be a different password for each email account, on websites like here for login? And because of "massive hacks" those websites are compromised and the user's password is gotten and somehow the hacker associates that password with the user's ISP's email account that stupidly uses the same password? How would the hacker know what email account the user had?

I'm not following your reasoning. I mean, your email password from one of your 10 or more accounts (my ISP allows us 10 accounts for standard Road Runner and if I upgrade to Turbo I think I get 25 email accounts) would never be your password on a website where you registered with one exception if you used your email account here at dslr! I don't remember a SINGLE one of my email accounts passwords for all the accounts I have with my ISP. They are automatically remembered by Outlook Express, Opera mail, and SeaMonkey mail so how could I use any of them as login for a website where I gave that email address? I'd have to go fish out the written record of the passwords. What a hassle. I wouldn't do that besides it is stupid to do that. I'm not following your reasoning at all.

I don't have a Facebook account. I block Facebook in HostsMan but if I had one I would never give my unlisted, unpublished phone number to Facebook. If I had an account it would all be lies anyway so I wouldn't care if it couldn't be verified.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

Not everyone is as conscientious about privacy and security as you, Mele. Many people do indeed reuse the same passwords for multiple unrelated accounts, and also reuse login names for multiple accounts (not just email accounts).

Also, you are forgetting about OpenID which allows one username/password for accessing many different sites and email accounts ("One ring to rule them all" comes to mind). This site uses OpenID for those who want to use it.

reply to Mele20
I am trying to figure out were ISP was mentioned in Krisnatharok 's post.
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He didn't mention ISPs. He said email accounts were an example of lowered tiered accounts. I didn't understand that. To me, most email accounts are ISP email accounts and that is why I challenged his comment that ISP email accounts are massively hacked. I don't think they are.

As for OpenID, I don't see how that could be used to login into your ISP's say 10 to 25 email accounts that you have set up. I have to set up each email account I have (including my dslr email account) in OE, in SeaMonkey mail, and in Opera mail and I have to supply the password for each account when setting it up in these email clients that I use. I can't use any password for dslr mail except my dslr site password. As for my ISP's email accounts (10-25 available based on either standard or Turbo speed), I had to supply a password for each account when setting it up in Road Runner Member accounts page. The Master RR email account is never used as it has the user's name in it rendering it useless if you are the least bit privacy conscious as you cannot change that master account to remove your name and id from it. How would I use OpenID as a password for each of these accounts? It is not possible. I never type the passwords after setting up each account. My browsers that have email clients and Outlook Express remember the passwords. I avoid like the plague having to use RR webmail which AWFUL. I use SeaMonkey, Opera, and OE mail and I get all accounts including dslr in those email clients.

I still don't know what he is getting at and that is why I asked. Why would I need OpenID for email accounts? And how would OpenID make it easier than it already is to have SeaMonkey, Opera or OE check for new mail? I guess my puzzlement is due to his saying email accounts are "lower tier" and thus prone to hacking. My ISP has never had email accounts hacked as far as I know (although DSLR has been hacked and I am so thankful I was not one of the victims and I wish Justin would follow through on his promise to fix it since my password here is the same as my dslr mail password and we can't have a different password for dslr mail) and what does "lower tier" mean?

My point to him was that if you only type your ISP's mail accounts passwords when you first set them up and then you have your email clients (be that OE or web browsers, etc) remember them for you why would you ever be tempted to use them as your login on some website? I don't understand that at all. The only way a hacker could get your various ISP email account passwords would be if he/she hacked Road Runner gateway email servers or hacked RoadRunner User Accounts. I have never heard of that happening. I can see though if you have an email account here at dslr AND you used your dslr password at other sites then, sure, you could be in a world of trouble because Justin has still not fixed the problem. But how many people have email accounts at dslr and of those when this site was hacked most who posted in the thread about it said they did NOT reuse their password here anywhere else partly because it is same password for email here as for the site itself and it would be stupid to reuse it.
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reply to chrisretusn
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You just hit 'Continue' to bypass...
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reply to ArkhmAsylm
Like I said before. I have done that before as well and it worked. Eventually you guys will get flagged over time and that screen will not let you pass. It will force you to provide a number and they will send you a code. You then need to put it in to "verify" the account. If you don't go through that and ignore it like me. The account will be eventually disabled. Hence the email I received asking for government id.

reply to KoRnGtL15

Re: Facebook now wants your personal phone number....

BTW, I took a look at the Govt ID link.

You can black out all other information but your name, DOB and picture. It's not a big deal at all. And I can see why FB is doing this.

As long I'm not doing something funny, I won't have to do things like that.. but if it EVER did, I will just give them my cell number and BE DONE WITH IT (!!!!!!!), just like I did with many local businesses around here and many store accounts online.. NO BIG DEAL AT ALL. Jeez.

reply to KoRnGtL15
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If that time comes, I can certainly do without Facebook.
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reply to Razzy12345
It is a big deal, I'm already upset that they are using my information to make money. So just give them more? Yah right

KMA and the door wont bother me on the way out.
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