Timeline for How can I avoid my password being harvested by key loggers from internet cafes?
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| Sep 10, 2011 at 16:19 | comment | added | akira | Tomas T.: OTP are not theoretical. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… ... if you just want "my email" and dont care about security: just go ahead and use whatever you want. if you care about it: dont use a medium you can not trust. end of story. just because you don't like it does not mean it is not true. | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 15:11 | comment | added | Tomas | @Akira: which is never available. You are giving theoretical answers, but OP and many other incl. me just need a practical solution when you are abroad and need to get to gmail in a coffee. | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 14:52 | comment | added | akira | @Tomas T: "one time pad" is the solution. | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 15:45 | comment | added | Tomas | @akira - but you do not have better solution to the problem! The typing-in-the-password method is the best you can do. It is a good idea, I cannot see why you disparage it? | |
| Aug 16, 2011 at 8:11 | comment | added | Dunaril | @Louis you can. From your google account settings, you can activate 2-step activation. | |
| Aug 16, 2011 at 6:40 | comment | added | akira | @Jeremy Banks: the point is that it helps "eventually". i am not interested in "eventual they do not sniff my stuff", i want to be SURE. and i can not be sure if i have actually entered the authentification, even in some obscure way. | |
| Aug 16, 2011 at 1:40 | comment | added | Louis Rhys | Maybe he can't control the authentication methods. For example, I'm not sure if you can use sms-based password to log in to Google. | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 22:56 | comment | added | Jeremy | "security through obscurity, which never works." Except when it does. This line is always repeated, but security through obscurity is probably quite effective in many situations, such as this one. If one user obscures their data, and the other hundreds don't, are they going to bother to un-obscure it? | |
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| Aug 15, 2011 at 13:43 | history | answered | akira | CC BY-SA 3.0 |