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This may be a way to provide secure communications from E-bay, but if everyone you do business with on the Internet goes this route, then you will have to go from site to site just getting your messages. How time consuming and inconvenient this method will be instead of checking your 1 email Inbox instead. Maybe they should just find a universal way to use secure communications and fix the email systems.
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| said by TKJunkMail  :Secure, but inconvenient Better safe than sorry....  
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they may get together and offer a standard XML based message query interface. And then someone can develop a message monitoring app that can keep track of multiple sites.
But then the phishers will work with the trojan writers to infect the local app and the battle will move on... |
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| said by justin:
they may get together and offer a standard XML based message query interface. And then someone can develop a message monitoring app that can keep track of multiple sites. Great idea!
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But then the phishers will work with the trojan writers to infect the local app and the battle will move on... Grinch! 
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This type of thing is why secure RSS (RSS dynamically generated using a username and password to authorize the user) would be so nice. Imagine if you could set your RSS feedreader to download your eBay Message Center messages using your eBay username/password, your BBR post list using your BBR username/password, etc. This method would be nearly immune* to spamming, phishing, or password sniffing.
*Immune, that is, assuming that the local computer hasn't been trojaned. Once a PC's security is breached, all bets go out the window.
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| well if RSS requests were automatically made with any domain cookies then they could be personalized. RSS readers in-built into browsers could certainly do that. There is nothing stopping XML servers from checking login cookies and producing personal content. |
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I am surprised that many of you receive 'spam' via the Ebay inbox. I have yet to receive anything other than the original 'welcome' message that explained the My Messages center.
The Ebay inbox *should* be for a) account related messages first and foremost (billing, passwords, login issues, etc., etc.) and b) selling/buying/marketing related messages second (opt-in). The My Messages inbox is really an adjunct/complement to any regularly (or not so) checked inbox. Yes, it is still susceptible to smart phishing schemes, but could be used for improved customer relations, *if* it is not abused by Ebay marketing. |
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justin
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