Terms of Conflicts
Just a few weeks after Microsoft announced their final version of MSN Windows Live Messenger 8.0 (and the beta of the 8.1 version), ICQ finally got their own all-shiny more-feature-loaded and heavier-than-ever new version.
So where's the catch? Well, the ICQ Terms of Service page about using passwords says:
"The ICQ staff will NEVER ask for your password"but now, it seems that if you wanna sign up for the new beta version of ICQ 6, you must give it away:
So, what can you do now? As sad as it is, I can fairly say that unlike old times, I just don't care about it that much. It doesn't seem like they really improved anything. Once, they used to be the leaders of all the IM applications everywhere, but now ICQ are way behind their own competitors.
But I guess that's a story for some other time..
2 comments:
The password is not readable to them (humans), it's just to sign up for the ICQ 6 Preview system to that "seperated" system. That's all.
As a general rule, systems do not display passwords to admins, admins can only reset them
Yeah, that's obvious. But still, it can affect the ICQ users so they'll get used to giving out their password on pages with the ICQ logo in them. Once there, they can very easily fall into a phishing scam.
And about your last sentence.. come on, the password has to stored somewhere (encrypted or not, doesn't really matter), so who has the access to this DB, and/or the code which encrypts it, can surely find your password.
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