On Saturday 01 Aug 2015 05:08:04 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 31.07.2015 um 11:31 schrieb Mick: > > I used Firefox to login to Gmail and suddenly received a message from > > Google, advising me: > > > > "New sign-in from Firefox on Linux > > > > Hi Michael,Your Google Account xxxxx was just used to sign in from > > Firefox on Linux." > > > > Have you noticed something similar and should we be changing anything on > > the new FF configuration, or is this Gmail getting smarter? > > seriously? Have you never heard that browsers send tons of data to the > server? Like browser version, OS, language... ? > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) KHTML/4.14.10 (like Gecko) Konqueror/4.14 > > that is, for example what MY konqueror setup currently sends.
Thanks Volker, I know that browsers send agent data to the server, but I had never received such an email from Gmail before. Most that had happened in the past is to receive an email to confirm I am the real owner of the account when I tried to connect using IMAP4 while overseas. So this tells me that Google are also logging the IP addresses I am connecting from and check my geographic location for <aheam!> security purposes. -- Regards, Mick
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
