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Asking for my email password is phishing, period. It may be phishing for a less nefarious cause, but how's the average enduser supposed to know the difference?
by dripton 13y ago
Asking for my email password is phishing, period.
It may be phishing for a less nefarious cause, but how's the average enduser supposed to know the difference? We need to plant the meme that any site asking for another site's password is always wrong.
- rglullis 13y agoCancel your Facebook account. They do the same to "find your friends"
- adrr 13y agoCancel all your social network accounts. Everyone does it. They say they don't store email addresses, technically true but they store a hash of it. They use this data to recommend friends/connections. It can also be used to recommend friends/connections when a new user signups during the signup flow.
- dripton 13y agoI have cancelled two out of two accounts that have tried to phish my email password. (Udacity and now LinkedIn.) "Everyone" certainly does not do it. (I know Facebook does it, but just because the slimiest big company on the web does something doesn't mean it's okay.)
- oddthink 13y agoYou might not like it, but if they're not doing it under false pretenses, it isn't phishing. Now, if they pretended to be gmail and asked for your password, that would be phishing. Note that I'm not saying it's a good practice, but you need to come up with another name for it than "phishing", because that one's already taken.