For that you meed to supply email addy registered with a/c, which you can't change without knowing current pwd.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

For that you meed to supply email addy registered with a/c, which you can't change without knowing current pwd.

ok, here's a senario, you have access to someones pc, they you want to do what you said you can't,
1, amazon lost password send to registered e-mail addy,
lots of people use outlook or some other e-mail client do they not, so the chances are that one of those e-mail addies is the registered e-mail addy, so once the reset pw e-mail is received the hacker or whatever can change what ever they want to
basically amazon should not keep cc debit card details

For goodness sake, man! You're on the guy's computer. His email is yours.

[Edit]: And, besides, the account name, which is filled in automatically is the email address.

Edited by deleted (Fri 11-Nov-11 15:33:49)

In reply to a post by Malwaremike:

This concerns non-techies like myself and was sparked by this thread on hackers http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/gaming/f/4062651-st...

I have an Amazon account on which Amazon retains my credit card details -- I don't like it but that's the way it's done. So visit Amazon, choose your goods, go to checkout and Firefox applies password, and Amazon the credit card details.

When I went into Firefox the other day I was appalled to find my Amazon password visible to anyone who switched on my computer, an open door to Amazon's warehouse ...

I deleted this password from Firefox but I wonder how many other security breaches are available via this otherwise handy feature?

What did you expect the "show passwords" button to do exactly?

an option is to not let it store any..
and use an independant password storage program.
Like Lastpass

which has one master password, and keeps the passwords (encrypted) in the cloud, and if you have more than one PC, syncs to all of those also.. 'when you login to lastpass'

You can also have seperate sections for work/home etc keeping them seperate.

You can now afford to have unique and obscure/difficult passwords and know that lastpass will provide and keep them safe.

In reply to a post by andy88:

an option is to not let it store any..
and use an independant password storage program.
Like Lastpass

which has one master password, and keeps the passwords (encrypted) in the cloud, and if you have more than one PC, syncs to all of those also.. 'when you login to lastpass'

You can also have seperate sections for work/home etc keeping them seperate.

You can now afford to have unique and obscure/difficult passwords and know that lastpass will provide and keep them safe.

Firefox encrypts them if you use a "Master Password"