Re: Security Question

From: N. Miller (duh_at_blackhole.aosake.net)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:24:17 -0700

In article <de9001c43c12$75127bc0$a401280a@phx.gbl>,
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com says...

> Is it possible for someone to access your AOL account
> from a remote location, and while they are accessing your
> account it makes your phone line busy??

Hard to say. There are any of a number of ways to steal your password; true
for any service, too, not just AOL. There are ways to set a modem to answer
an incoming call.

However, the two in combination is unlikely. I do not know that the AOL
software is capable of auto-answering an incoming call. I rather think not.
If your AOL account is being accessed from your computer on the premise,
then somebody is most likely physically sitting at the keyboard. 

-- 
Norman
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