Why the hell can't ICQ integrate a "red flag" into their program? For example, if your account is hacked, said ahcker will change the email address to prevent you from getting the account back. Why can't icq implement a "hack stop" so that when you create the account, you can select whether or not any change of email address would be a hacked account?
Example: say my email is
[email protected] and I set my account up to allow ONLY that email address. When hackerboy comes along and tries to change the email address, icq will prevent it and lockdown the account until I come along and re-activate it.
Your email address would have to be private, and should you need to reactivate your account, you'd have to correctly answer security questions which are set to be completely random so that a pattern isn't easily found.
I'm sure there are all kinds of things wrong with this idea, but it's a better one than ICQ currently has.