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  2. Why am I asked to verify my account after signing in?

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    If there's something unusual about your sign in or recent activity, we'll ask you to go through another verification step after you've entered the correct password. This is an important security feature that helps to protect your account from unauthorized access.

  3. Add or disable 2-step verification for extra security - AOL Help

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    Add an extra security step to sign into your account with 2-step verification. Find out how to turn on 2-step verification and receive a verification code, and how to turn off 2-step verification if you need to.

  4. Reset or change your password - AOL Help

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    Click Change password. Enter a new password. Click Continue. From most AOL mobile apps: Tap the Menu icon. Tap Manage Accounts. Tap Account info. Tap Security settings. Enter your security code. Tap Change password. Enter a new password. If these steps don't work in your app, change your password using your mobile browser. Still need help?

  5. sync (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    The related system call fsync() commits just the buffered data relating to a specified file descriptor. [1] fdatasync() is also available to write out just the changes made to the data in the file, and not necessarily the file's related metadata. [2] Some Unix systems run a kind of flush or update daemon, which calls the sync function on a ...

  6. rdiff-backup - Wikipedia

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    Beginning with version 2.2, the flags passed to rdiff-backup are either general, or specific to the operation. For example, disabling fsync (see below) is an option that is general, and thus comes after rdiff-backup. --no-compression is specific to the backup mode, and thus comes after backup.

  7. Server Name Indication - Wikipedia

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    Server Name Indication payload is not encrypted, thus the hostname of the server the client tries to connect to is visible to a passive eavesdropper. This protocol weakness was exploited by security software for network filtering and monitoring [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and governments to implement censorship.

  8. Secure Remote Password protocol - Wikipedia

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    The Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) is an augmented password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol, specifically designed to work around existing patents. [1]Like all PAKE protocols, an eavesdropper or man in the middle cannot obtain enough information to be able to brute-force guess a password or apply a dictionary attack without further interactions with the parties for each guess.

  9. Forward secrecy - Wikipedia

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    Forward secrecy has also been used to describe the analogous property of password-authenticated key agreement protocols where the long-term secret is a (shared) password. [6] In 2000 the IEEE first ratified IEEE 1363, which establishes the related one-party and two-party forward secrecy properties of various standard key agreement schemes. [7]