Protect Your WA Account

byjhout

194 followers

11 years ago

Hi WA Family, just a quick note about your email updates from WA.

You have the option to "Automatically log me in from links in email notifications". The potential harm in this? Anyone who compromises your email can just click a link and be automatically logged in to your account, and there is no end to the damage they can cause from there.

The links are encrypted so you will not see a humanly readable user/password. The link will as you have already seen just log you in to your account. So anyone who gets their hands on the link can do the same.

You can go into your "Account Settings" and click the "off" button on the "Automatically log me in from links in email notifications" and problem solved. You still get your notifications but it won't have your login info embedded in link.

Again the threat is if your link gets shared out somehow or someone compromises your email and has access to click the link.

Just a thought :)

John