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Originally posted by neologan
And if do use user/pass, but that doesn't change the fact that if i leave my PC on and walk away for half an hour, someone could jump on and get to my email instead of theirs if i use your method.
The same will happen when you leave Messenger open and you walk away.... Hence I said you should use a Windows account with password, and also enable the password on the screensaver, and use the Windows user log out when you go away for a minute....
It is no use complaining about security if you don't do the basic steps. A PC running normally and left alone is _always_ insecure.
It is almost the same as wanting to use Messenger Plus!'s encrypted logs, while on the same time leaving the logging feature in Messenger enabled.
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PS: After reading some stuff...
I agree that it is annoying at first sight. But it is not that Microsoft didn't bother. They have their good reasons, eventhough it seems annoying to people. It is true that they have a secure way to auto-sign you in only in MSIE.
This isn't being lazy or not being bothered. It also is not a way for MS to force people use MSIE either. The secure way of auto-logging in is simply not possible with FF since it does not use the same APIs and methods provided by MSIE which are use by Messenger. It simply is not possible.
It is a misconception to think that Messenger simply loads the Windows Live log in page (the page you normally would go to manually) and auto-fills everything in and auto-submits it when it uses MSIE. If it did that, then yes, it would be possible to use any other browser to load the same page and do the same thing. But it apparently does not do that as it uses a different, more secure, method only available with MSIE.
And even if you would manage to integrate it using FF, it will not be completely secure anyways, eventhough it might seem it is.
Also, in my experience, not everything works exactly as it should, unfortunatly, when you use FF on Windows Live (not talking about hotmail specifically, but also the other services). So, in the end you end up using MSIE anyways.
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