abhishekjha
Member
hello,
it has been months since i visited my profile on orkut.com - a part of google networks.
today i tried to login into orkut and i found something strange:
1>my alternative username as shown by google is actually one of my friend's name- i agree this may happen due to my profile getting hacked when i used cyber cafe last year with keylogging or maybe my password was easy to guess
2>the most strange and shocking thing... orkut shows up a 'friend suggestions by orkut' box in which the profile of not just my friend's-friends(mutual friends) show up but also the profile of the people whom i had e-mailed using 'my yahoo e-mail id' also comes up here.. but the question is........ how come orkut.com come to know of people whom i used to e-mail from my yahoo mail by just knowing my yahoo user id, but without knowing my yahoo mail password..?? are they hacking too..?
3>the most dangerous thing.. in firefox and internet explorer i have google toolbar & yahoo toolbar & ask toolbar. most of the time i feel scared keeping them activated as they maybe tracking my online activities so i keep a wikipedia toolbar and for some reasons my browser's pages open faster when i dint keep a toolbar of any of the search engines like yahoo, google, ask etc and i keep toolbar of wikipedia. google and other search engine staff says that they dont spy on our activities but.. why does it make a difference in browsing speed?
4>i had used the same id in meebo.com which aggregates all contacts of yahoo, google, msn etc into one but does that make orkut know about my yahoo contacts?
the situation is my id: abhishekjha_online[at]yahoo is what i use as an id in yahoo login, meebo login, and also orkut login but the password in all 3 of them are different but how come orkut catch my yahoo contacts and recommend them to me to add in my friend's list? you see the passwords in all 3 sites are different, the id is same but how does the connection happen?.. its something dangerous i think! and one thing to note is also that these contacts are not from my yahoo's address book, these contacts are from the e-mail ids to whom i sent e-mails when i used yahoo mail... some of them also link to some domainers & companies e-mail ids.
what do you suggest?
regards,
Abhishek
it has been months since i visited my profile on orkut.com - a part of google networks.
today i tried to login into orkut and i found something strange:
1>my alternative username as shown by google is actually one of my friend's name- i agree this may happen due to my profile getting hacked when i used cyber cafe last year with keylogging or maybe my password was easy to guess
2>the most strange and shocking thing... orkut shows up a 'friend suggestions by orkut' box in which the profile of not just my friend's-friends(mutual friends) show up but also the profile of the people whom i had e-mailed using 'my yahoo e-mail id' also comes up here.. but the question is........ how come orkut.com come to know of people whom i used to e-mail from my yahoo mail by just knowing my yahoo user id, but without knowing my yahoo mail password..?? are they hacking too..?
3>the most dangerous thing.. in firefox and internet explorer i have google toolbar & yahoo toolbar & ask toolbar. most of the time i feel scared keeping them activated as they maybe tracking my online activities so i keep a wikipedia toolbar and for some reasons my browser's pages open faster when i dint keep a toolbar of any of the search engines like yahoo, google, ask etc and i keep toolbar of wikipedia. google and other search engine staff says that they dont spy on our activities but.. why does it make a difference in browsing speed?
4>i had used the same id in meebo.com which aggregates all contacts of yahoo, google, msn etc into one but does that make orkut know about my yahoo contacts?
the situation is my id: abhishekjha_online[at]yahoo is what i use as an id in yahoo login, meebo login, and also orkut login but the password in all 3 of them are different but how come orkut catch my yahoo contacts and recommend them to me to add in my friend's list? you see the passwords in all 3 sites are different, the id is same but how does the connection happen?.. its something dangerous i think! and one thing to note is also that these contacts are not from my yahoo's address book, these contacts are from the e-mail ids to whom i sent e-mails when i used yahoo mail... some of them also link to some domainers & companies e-mail ids.
what do you suggest?
regards,
Abhishek