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Please keep your laptop on your desk, and only ever use the worldwide web from that single location.
My email is, once again, failing to remember what the point of the internet is.
The point of the internet, as summarised by Mez: YOU CAN GET TO THE BITS YOU WANT FROM ANYWHERE.
I opened my laptop* just now, at my parents' house.
* a portable device, designed to be carried to unusual locations
My laptop's email application quickly did a check for new mail - and Google freaked out. Google logged me out, and emailed me saying "Someone else used your password to try to get into your email account! Change your password immediately!"
(The first time Google did this, I was the sucker who thought I should change my password immediately. I now have a more annoying email password that's harder to remember, which makes it extra annoying when, for example, Google logs me out of my email for being in a new location.)
Which... again. This is the internet. This is what it's for. This is my laptop. This is what my laptop's for. I am supposed to be able to travel to new locations, with the portable device of my choice - or a completely different device, should I so choose - and log into my email from anywhere. THAT IS THE POINT OF EMAIL.
On a related note: recently, I logged into an email account I don't usually use. Google instantly sent me a "Someone has logged in! Password not safe! Panic!" email.
Where did they send it? That's right - to the account they'd just logged me into.
So:
- I log in.
- I see the email inbox.
- The inbox has a new email, from Google, wondering if someone has breached my account, and wanting me to verify whether it's okay.
- I open the email, check "yep, really me", and get on with my day.
...which would have been equally possible if I was in fact a sneaky hacker logging into someone else's email.
The point of the internet, as summarised by Mez: YOU CAN GET TO THE BITS YOU WANT FROM ANYWHERE.
I opened my laptop* just now, at my parents' house.
* a portable device, designed to be carried to unusual locations
My laptop's email application quickly did a check for new mail - and Google freaked out. Google logged me out, and emailed me saying "Someone else used your password to try to get into your email account! Change your password immediately!"
(The first time Google did this, I was the sucker who thought I should change my password immediately. I now have a more annoying email password that's harder to remember, which makes it extra annoying when, for example, Google logs me out of my email for being in a new location.)
Which... again. This is the internet. This is what it's for. This is my laptop. This is what my laptop's for. I am supposed to be able to travel to new locations, with the portable device of my choice - or a completely different device, should I so choose - and log into my email from anywhere. THAT IS THE POINT OF EMAIL.
On a related note: recently, I logged into an email account I don't usually use. Google instantly sent me a "Someone has logged in! Password not safe! Panic!" email.
Where did they send it? That's right - to the account they'd just logged me into.
So:
- I log in.
- I see the email inbox.
- The inbox has a new email, from Google, wondering if someone has breached my account, and wanting me to verify whether it's okay.
- I open the email, check "yep, really me", and get on with my day.
...which would have been equally possible if I was in fact a sneaky hacker logging into someone else's email.
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Also, NOT EVERYTHING IS MOBILE THESE DAYS GOOGLE.
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"What's my password?"
"I don't know. Have you tried clicking 'Forgot my password'?"
"Now it asks about my phone number! What am I supposed to do?"
"Well, let's look at it. What does it say, exactly?"
"That!" (points)
"Your e-mail client is in Bulgarian, I can't read that. What does it say?"
"It asks if this is my phone number!"
"Is it?"
"Yes!"
"Well, then, click 'Yes.'"
"Oh. Now it tells me to check my phone and enter a number. What do I do?"
"Have you tried checking your phone?"
"Oh. There's a number here. What do I do?"
"What does it ask you to do?"
"That!" (points)
"Your e-mail client is in Bulgarian. What does it say?"
"Enter the number they sent to my phone."
"Good. So enter the number they sent to your phone."
...etc etc etc. And that's assuming they've brought their phone, or that their phone number is still the same, or that they haven't just entered the same incorrect password three times and been locked out... And somehow, it's my fault.
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