weird...

[jethrien]

The Standard & Poor website will never take my password the first time. Seriously. Every single time, I type in my username and password, and it rejects it as wrong, and I type in the exact same thing, and it takes it as right. I can't possibly mistype this every single first time, right? Yo, S&P, what's up?

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yahoo mail sometimes does that too. I discovered the problem was that it was pulling the log-in page automatically from the temp internet files when I was actually logged in, so hitting refresh fixed it. If I tried to log in it got confused and I had to log out and log back in again.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, see, I'd consider that, except that I don't give the S&P website any information of any kind, really. I'm not sure the S&P website is set-up to collect information at all. Or rather, the information I give would require exceptional deviousness to be useful. I type in my name and password, and then I look up the ratings of various companies. It returns the ratings of said companies. It knows nothing about me, and there's no personal or company information stored on the site. I'm not really sure how someone could use this password against me.

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

My comment, which I deleted due to a bad use of a lj-tag, said:
Let's hope ivy03 is right. B/c the scenario I was going to suggest involved a phishing website that sends you to the correct website after your first, failed login attempt in an effort to grab your password.