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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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> > 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 I had |
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never received such an email from Gmail before. Most that had happened in the |
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past is to receive an email to confirm I am the real owner of the account when |
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I tried to connect using IMAP4 while overseas. So this tells me that Google |
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are also logging the IP addresses I am connecting from and check my geographic |
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location for <aheam!> security purposes. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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