Gmail looking out for security – again

Jul, 13, 2008

Posted by George
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Gmail once again shows their concern for security by adding a new security feature: remote sign out. If you ever wondered if you left your Gmail logged in somewhere or maybe someone figured out our password, now you can not only find out, you can figure out where they logged on from (by IP address), and when. Plus you can log out all sessions besides the one you are currently using.

Look to your Gmail footer and read all of the good details – Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account .

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2 Comments "Gmail looking out for security – again"

  • Code says:
    July 16, 2008 at 4:14 am

    Very nice feature… but it doesn’t work with IE6 (and maybe with other browsers).
    You can use the direct url of the page!
    Follow these steps:
    1) change your browser’s user agent string (eg use “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)”), close the browser and reopen it in order the change to take effect. From now your browser will be identified as IE7
    2) Log in to Gmail with your account, et voilà, “Last account activity” is available on the bottom of the page. You click it and the popup opens. Save the url of this page, which will work on all browsers, then undo the changes you made to the user agent string of IE6 and restart the browser.
    When you are logged onto Gmail and you need the “Last account activity” page, simply use the url you previously saved.

  • George says:
    July 18, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Odd, I wouldn’t expect them to write any features in that wouldn’t support any recent browser versions.

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