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Topic: FYI: "ownership change queued" - page 2. (Read 984 times)

administrator
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December 14, 2018, 12:12:46 AM
#3
Is it I understand correctly?

When someone want to change his email on BTT account,then he can't use his/her account for those 7 days because "The account stays locked throughout all of this.

No, the queue only applies when the administration changes the email address, not when you change it yourself. It's for recovering hacked accounts and similar. Most people don't need to care about it.
hero member
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Bitcoin = Financial freedom
December 14, 2018, 12:10:02 AM
#2
Is it I understand correctly?

When someone want to change his email on BTT account,then he can't use his/her account for those 7 days because "The account stays locked throughout all of this.
administrator
Activity: 5222
Merit: 13032
December 13, 2018, 11:41:28 PM
#1
As an extra protection against any possible social engineering attacks, whenever* the administration changes an account's email address from its current value, the following process occurs:
 - The change is queued.
 - It is listed in seclog.php.
 - The old email receives a warning.
 - After 7 days, the change goes through and another seclog.php entry is added.

The account stays locked throughout all of this.

Hopefully it will be essentially unheard of, but if an account is going to be incorrectly transferred, everyone who knows about the incorrect change should noisily post all of the evidence they have so that we can at least put the change on hold and re-review the evidence.

* Admins can act outside of procedure and bypass the queue if necessary, but hardly ever will.
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