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Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 01 Aug 2015 05:08:04 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>> Am 31.07.2015 um 11:31 schrieb Mick: |
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>>> I used Firefox to login to Gmail and suddenly received a message from |
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>>> Google, advising me: |
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>>> "New sign-in from Firefox on Linux |
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>>> Hi Michael,Your Google Account xxxxx was just used to sign in from |
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>>> Firefox on Linux." |
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>>> |
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>>> Have you noticed something similar and should we be changing anything on |
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>>> the new FF configuration, or is this Gmail getting smarter? |
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>> seriously? Have you never heard that browsers send tons of data to the |
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>> server? Like browser version, OS, language... ? |
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>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) KHTML/4.14.10 (like Gecko) Konqueror/4.14 |
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>> that is, for example what MY konqueror setup currently sends. |
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> Thanks Volker, I know that browsers send agent data to the server, but |
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I had |
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> never received such an email from Gmail before. Most that had |
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happened in the |
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> past is to receive an email to confirm I am the real owner of the |
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account when |
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> I tried to connect using IMAP4 while overseas. So this tells me that |
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Google |
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> are also logging the IP addresses I am connecting from and check my |
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geographic |
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> location for <aheam!> security purposes. |
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Facebook does this too. I was testing tor once and it had me showing as |
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coming from Africa somewhere. Anyway, it wouldn't let me in even with |
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my password. After I disabled tor so that it would show my real |
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location, I had a warning that someone had tried to login from a foreign |
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country. It wanted me to change my password etc etc etc. |
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Google isn't the only one that does this. I suspect that most all sites |
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do this to some extent. After all, how can you visit a website and it |
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not know your IP address and such? It has to know where to send your |
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requests too. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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