Monitor Access to Your Gmail Account

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/07/google-lets-you-monitor-access-to-your-gmail-account/

by enomar • 18 years ago

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icey• 18 years ago

Weird, their link to the Gmail blog takes you to techmeme.com.

Anyways, here is the correct link to the Google announcement: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/remote-sign-out-and-in...

alikarbassi• 18 years ago

Why are they only rolling this out for IE7 and Firefox? Where's the other browser love? Safari anyone?

Oompa• 18 years ago

"We are in the process of rolling this feature out to the latest version of Gmail, which is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7."

They are, they're rolling it out to the latest version of Gmail. I'm sure they mentioned Firefox and Internet Explorer 7, since most people that use Gmail use those two browsers, unless Safari doesn't get the latest version of Gmail.

ced• 18 years ago

As someone who always uses it from an Internet cafe, I just wish they'd allow only 1 session at all times. Besides, is there really that much benefit to multiple sessions? It's not like there is much state in Gmail.

peakok• 18 years ago

I wrote to the Gmail team in 2004 to request this feature, as well as the possibility to set up a second layer password that would be required to perform some operations (like deleting the archives, changing the accound password, reading old archives, etc.). I don't want anobody to be able to download or delete all my mail since 2004, while like everyone else I have to log in sometimes on "unsafe" machines (cyber cafés, family computers and such). So this would be the best compromise.

I'm glad the first feature was implemented, but I'm still waiting for the second one so I can really keep all my mail on their server instead of downloading and encrypting it locally, then erasing it from Gmail because it's sensitive.

Monitor Access to Your Gmail Account

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