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Re: How to secure my yahoo account


From: "Meritt James" <meritt_james () bah com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:11:49 -0500

Remember that you are maintaining material on THEIR server and act
accordingly.

Jim

Brecrost Jones wrote:

How can you know if your yahoo account password has been cracked in case
the cracker doesn't change it or manipulate any other data relevant to your
account(for instance after reading your mails marks them as unread,etc)?

My suggestion would be to avoid using a Yahoo account for anything that
requires security.

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