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Palin hack highlights important e-mail risks

by Steve Ragan - Sep 22 2008, 11:14

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Graham Cluley, SophosSep 22nd, 2008 - 11:33:00

There's a fundamental human problem here.

We are _all_ far too obedient.

If a website asks us, in a friendly enough font, to do something then very many of us will do precisely what it asks!

People need to learn to be disobedient. It's not as if Yahoo are going to send detectives round to check to see if you are telling the truth about where you met your partner, or what your mother's maiden name is.

If more people applied common sense, and asked themselves how easy it would be for a determined criminal to answer their 'secret question' then maybe more people would choose safer 'secret answers'.

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MarilynSep 22nd, 2008 - 18:15:22

No charges have been pressed against the hacker. Although the FBI are scaring him to death, trashing his apartment etc. Wonder how they can get a warrant without any charges? The charges would be misdemeanor.

However the greater crime here, is Sarah Palin circumventing government established email services and using web based email service for government business (according to the headings on her email list). She exposed the government of Alaska to a security breach and failed to obey the law regarding archiving of government correspondence.

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