[e-gold-list] Re: Security measures

[Pete Chown]

Sidd wrote:

> That is not entirely correct; password and PIN do give you read-only
> access to the account, but if you wish to do anything useful with the
> account, you need to successfully beat the PIK challenge.

Ah, that makes more sense now.  I hadn't logged onto Pecunix for ages,
so I went to see what the login screen was like.  I was surprised to see
that the PIK thing wasn't there, but obviously it is meant to come later
in the process.

> Pecunix
> login is so effective, no account has ever been compromised by a
> phishing attack.

Is that a challenge? :-) One option would be a real time attack, using a
trojan.  Alternatively, the phishing site could ask people to enter
their whole PIK, because it's needed now the flibbertigibbet has been
upgraded, or for preventing terrorism, or something like that.

Pete




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