Whilst I love the Perl Monks as much as the next person, if my email account were compromised access to this site would be the least of my worries.

As it is the email address of monks is not visible to visitors to their home nodes, so I'm not sure I understand what would be gained from adding another test to the edit user page. Sure it raises the bar slightly, but not enough to make it possible to prove your identity.

After all if the email address 'foo@bar.com' corresponding to a Monk were compromised surely they would just enter 'foo@bar.com' into the field anyway? This would only gain a user security if they used one specific email address which was non-public for this site, and nothing else.

Steve
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steve.org.uk

In reply to Re: Email security for monks? by skx
in thread Email security for monks? by DigitalKitty

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