Poor Mark Ghosh. As someone who uses a ton of different email accounts, online community profiles and social networking tools, I really feel for this guy. Having any account compromised just plain sucks (I’ve had it happen to me, and I totally understand Mark’s reference to ‘panic mode’).
I thought this was a particularly relevant narrative about Google’s security, as I just posted a few days ago about GDrive (which could effectively store any file you’ve got on your computer). So while online storage may be convenient, it’s no fun when your convenient online storage account suddenly becomes a grab bag of personal information for malicious attackers.
I guess this is also the danger of the tendency that Google has to consolidate accounts under the umbrella of the Google Account. One login to everything means that only one set of login credentials needs to be compromised for attackers to get access to all your stuff.
Anyway, I hope you gets control of your account back Mark, as well as some kind of useful response from Google about the security of Orkut.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I was just thinking about this when I was signing up for FeedBurner. FeedBurner was recently acquired by Google so to use the service, you have to use your Google Account. I have no problem with this because I don’t use Gmail for my primary mail but I do have a lot of other services that I use. I would hate to have my Google Account compromised and lose access to a lot of vital services.