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I will freely admit that I fell for a phishing campaign. I’d just bought something on eBay (this was a while ago). I got an email about something in my account later that day that made it through my spam filters. I clicked on it, signed in, and then realized I’d done the deed. Nothing happened or was lost, but yes - it just takes one quick mistake.


I don’t get it. You know your ebay password?


Some password databases involve copy and pasting or autotyping. If you want automatic hostname verification you need a password database integrated with your browser. On mobile many browsers don't support extensions so integrating my password database into the browser would be hard.

In short, I do not know my ebay password, but I could have fallen for this phishing attack.


On mobile this is possible even without browser extensions - enpass, lastpass etc work just fine in Chrome or any other app, if it detects a password field.


Oh, you're right. I didn't know Android had that feature. Apparently I was way behind the times. I can no longer edit or delete my comment.


This was 2008 - way before I’d discovered the value of a password manager.




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