[ale] [OT] A frightening thing

[Leam Hall]

Okay, maybe it's worse. I'm logged in to Gmail via Firefox. If I click
my image in the upper right (and I'm on myaccount.google.com) and
then:

"Manage your google account" -> Click "Take Action" in the "Critical
Security Issues Found" section -> "Your Saved Passwords" -> "Go to
Password checkup" -> "Go to Password checkup" (yes, again) -> Reenter
my Goog PW

It has sections for Compromised passwords, duplicate passwords, and
weak passwords. The site is passwords.google.com, and it's "verified".
By Google, of course.



On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 2:24 PM Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, it gets even more fun; that e-mail has disappeared. I haven't
> emptied my trash or anything recently...
>
> *sigh* And companies wonder why we don't want to give them information...
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 12:33 PM Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like phishing using credentials harvested (e.g.) on the dark web.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:59 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> This morning I got a Google "security" thing for my google account.
> >> Somehow it had passwords for many accounts that I do not link to
> >> Google. At least I wasn't aware that I was giving them my password...
> >>
> >> Anyone familiar with this? Solutions that move away from a company
> >> that collects and sells things they shouldn't?
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> >   Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>