Sounds like a good idea, and the added bonus for Frontier is it gets folks in their shop.
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Sounds like a good idea, and the added bonus for Frontier is it gets folks in their shop.
So do you confirm this is not a phishing attempt?
I’m not doing this for this 3 reasons:
1 - No https in the link Seem to be very suspicious...
2 - Email address of last fdev newsletter: newsletters@email-frontier.co.uk
email address from this newsletter: newsletters@email-elitedangerous.com
3 - newsletter link of old emails from fdev: https://email-frontier.co.uk/
link on this newsletter: https://email-elitedangerous.com/
Anyone else had same suspects about this 3 points?
I’m not doing this for this 3 reasons:
1 - No https in the link Seem to be very suspicious...
2 - Email address of last fdev newsletter: newsletters@email-frontier.co.uk
email address from this newsletter: newsletters@email-elitedangerous.com
3 - newsletter link of old emails from fdev: https://email-frontier.co.uk/
link on this newsletter: https://email-elitedangerous.com/
Anyone else had same suspects about this 3 points?
Done.
for free items ill sign up again and again add infinity.
It really sounded suspect when I got an email with "Important information about your subscription" and it was legit, the logo for ED had also changed and the domain also looked dodgy. At least redirect the mail http to the Elite Dangerous main website, it would alleviate a lot of confusion.
That's true, but is the person who made the post Will Flanagan? (ie has someone stolen his password?) That's why it's important that the site where we enter our Personally Identifiable Information be protected with a TLS certificate. That guarantees (as much as is possible) that the website we're entering our PII into does belong to FDev even if Will had his credentials nicked.
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Sped read that.. picked out 'free' and 'anaconda' and signed up.. now what does it say?
last time I heard about a free anaconda I flew all the way out to Hutton Orbital and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt;
https://teespring.com/shop/elite-hutton-orbital#pid=369&cid=6513&sid=front
But free, well you know what my niece says about free stuff, "you have to buy , it says free!"
No all I need is a paint job for that free Ana............hang on, what did it say?
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Hi , i am very concerned about this. If a bank was to contact you in same manner you would be reporting it. Has there been a massive security breach at frontier? Or is it just plain careless ness. There is no option on your dashboard or notification to do this so why should this be done? No explanations etc. As someone pointed out its not to a secure site. Anyone else concerned? Can we get more confirmation from other frontier mods? [where is it]
I don't understand what people are on about? The form only asks for an email address, when has it ever been a problem to send an actual email address in plain-text... ?
You're doing it all the time. When you use email every single day all the header information is sent in plain-text like recipient address and your address, so this isn't any less secure than your daily use of email...
You're doing it all the time. When you use email every single day all the header information is sent in plain-text like recipient address and your address, so this isn't any less secure than your daily use of email...
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I see Will hasnt done many CG's, as siging up for an email does seem more exciting.
Alas FD mail got sent to spam somtime back so no need for me to resub for somthing I wasnt useing anyway, unless of course this has any impact on me being able to log in here or the game.
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Where does it say that, is it PC only Will? Console commanders need not apply? Do your accounts need to be linked with the email subscribed from or is it generic as my PC and PS4 are both registered to the same email address for my Frontier account.
I signed up two times
Once time through the forum and once time by the mail that I received last night
I will receive twice the decal and the paintjob ?
Once time through the forum and once time by the mail that I received last night
I will receive twice the decal and the paintjob ?
Will have forgotten all about it by then.
This is nothing breach releated, I suspect the HTTPS thing is an oversight. It has everything to do with GDPR which is a new European directive that dictates and determines how your personal data is stored and processed. There are some serious fines for companies that are non compliant and Fdev being a data controller(they determine what they need, how it's collected and how it's used) have a whole set of obligations which this is one.
At the core of GDPR is the idea of Explicit Consent, which means you have to Opt in for companies to store your data rather than opting out if you don't.
What's happening here is that Fdev are asking for your consent to store and process your email address for the purposes of sending out a newletter. As a thank you for helping them they are offering some in game goodies.
If you do not opt in, Fdev will have to.. by law delete your information until such a point YOU decide you want them again.
if you are so inclined go here https://gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/
Fdev are being smart and getting this out there early. Expect similar mails and needing to give consent for all sorts of things from virtually every company in the next couple of months
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