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ebay increasing user security with verification

Logging in to check progress of a recent sale on ebay this morning I got this interesting message. On the surface it looks like a good way for ebay to have confidence it is indeed you that is placing products for sale in their listings. But this may be more about appearance than real security.

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Password lock-down following hacked ebay account

In my email inbox this morning was a lovely message from ebay letting me know my account had been locked down due to it having been hacked. Great. So, not knowing exactly what, where, or when, the best policy was to spend some time locking down any other accounts by updating passwords.
I was pretty impressed [...]

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