AOL Security Hole

[muck_a_luck]

AOL users, watch out for LIFESTREAM if you also use AIM. I logged into AOL for mail, gave up my RL name for account security, only to have my RL name suddenly begin appearing on my AIM. Checking my AIM settings led me to Lifestream (which I did not know existed), where there was a ticky box checked allowing people to search on my full name, and THAT was changing my AIM identity. Un. Be. Lievable.

BTW, changing my Lifestream settings to Private DID NOT stop the problem. I found the answer when I went into my Lifestream profile to delete my name.

I will update when I learn from AOL if I CAN delete my Lifestream. Meanwhile, I think AOL may have just become a placeholder account. That's a pretty major security violation.

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[green_grrl]

I hate hate hate this trend towards "we are cross-linking all your presences at once but oh, we forgot to tell you"! I feel like DW and AO3 are my only truly completely safe havens.