WTF is 'Email Verification'

Pimpmaster - Tibet · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 143 **Location:**

What the hell do they mean by 'Email Verification' in the notice about improving/updating it

Do they mean the dreaded Image Code Verification (trying 2 hide it with a sneaky name) or is this yet another way to 'verify' us and stop us legits from logging on?

Could some1 explain plz....

KdzPower · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 151

just like when u register in this forum. joymax send an email varification to you..and u need to activate sro acc through there...

Zypher · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 8705 **Location:** Canada

when you change your password on sro, its spose to send you a email confirm so incase you got hacked they cant change it

NuclearSilo · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2007 5:20 pm

Quote:

[Email Verification]

- To use important functions within the web, users will be required to enter a code that is sent via email.
- After this system is applied, there will be limits in changing personal information.
- Those who have lost their password will be able to regain their password through this email verification.
- There is also intention of preventing account stealth.

Date of Application : February

Ppl still not understand? image code is to prevent brute force hacking.

Kodo · **Joined:** May 2006 **Posts:** 31

lol...im the only one who voted "no"? we are talking about the hacking prevent thing right? why hate it.

Hawkster · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 229 **Location:**

It Prevents as Nuclearsilo said "brute force hacking"

but it is anoying sometimes but it is for our own good.

winnifred · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 65 **Location:**

i voted no as well! because i love it! jokes same because it stops botters

Crumpets · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 7800 **Location:**

/goes to quickly change his 87234867235496@jsdgfgsdsd.com e-mail

=/

TwelveEleven · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3806 **Location:** Heaven

NuclearSilo wrote:

Quote:

[Email Verification]

- To use important functions within the web, users will be required to enter a code that is sent via email.
- After this system is applied, there will be limits in changing personal information.
- Those who have lost their password will be able to regain their password through this email verification.
- There is also intention of preventing account stealth.

Date of Application : February

Ppl still not understand? image code is to prevent brute force hacking.

How does it prevent brute force hacking? You get the image code AFTER they've confirmed your login. Only thing against brute force hacking is the 3 times max wrong password..

desolator144 · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 1016 **Location:** US

image verification makes every bot not be able to log itself in. Now a human has to do it for them instead. This barely slowed down botting like 1% because in the morning botters just log in all their bots manually by solving the verifications themselves.
E-mail verification in this case means they'll send out an e-mail to the address you give them when you sign up for a new account. The e-mail has a link saying "click here to activate your account." You can't log in with your new account until you verify it that was so basucally you have to give them an actual, functioning e-mail address that you can check. This is supposed to prevent people from signing up 100 bot accounts really fast because if you try and use the same e-mail address for the 2nd one you sign up, it will say that one is already in use. Who has 100 e-mails addresses, right? Wrong, that system doesn't work at all as I pointed out here: http://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=462618#462618

mushrooms · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 675 **Location:**

lol @ "account stealth"

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