Palin's Yahoo account EASILY hacked: Privacy means closing your yahoo account.

Bloggers and Personal ^ | 18 Sep 08 | Xzins

[cripplecreek]

Nah. I doubt anybody really cares about my x rated communiques with my girlfriend.

[AZScreamingEagle]

It was hacked that easily because she used a poor password. It wasn’t a brute force attack so much as the perp researching her and putting together potential password combinations.

[astyanax]

All web mail is a joke from a security standpoint.
Numerous sites explain how to crack any and all of them.

[Uriah_lost]

Yahoo and others who use password recovery schemes like that are not secure and especially so for those in public life whose “birthplace”, “mother’s maiden name”, etc can be easily researched.

[mnehring]

Something just struck me about the images of the emails.. Where are all the spam emails?

[Doogle]

...just an added note about this story....the AP refused to help the Secret Service investigate.

[stainlessbanner]

if the web account is protected by a password only, it's vulnerable.
any bets the gov's email account was a free yahoo account?

[Knitebane]

All web mail is a joke from a security standpoint.

All better now.

[jaydubya2]

I read he/she did’nt guess her password, he/she reset her password by answering the yahoo password protection questions.

[steveo]

what about your wife?;)

[meyer]

what about your wife?;)

She doesn't care either... ;-)

[Cyclone59]

So if they consider it easily hacked, then it must be her fault that they did something ILLEGAL - what a punch of pompas BS

[Moonman62]

They should get a subpoena and start arresting them if necessary. Protecting criminals isn’t part of the first amendment.

[ChinaThreat]

Anything not sent across the internet that is not encrypted is easily (relative term) to intercept. Mails are sent across many networks, some secure and some not. Some monitored, some not monitored. They leave copies and dozens of servers along the way. Anyone with access to those servers can compromise an email. Anyone with a packet sniffer in between can also compromise that email’s security.

If you want to keep your business private, don’t use email. Assume anything you put in an email may be exposed to the world. If you have to use email, use strong encryption. But even that can be compromised by national security officials.

[cripplecreek]

what about your wife?;)

Oh she'll be hacked alright.

[TheThirdRuffian]

His wife knows to delete my emails after she reads them.

;-)

[TheThirdRuffian]

We should start referring to this as “YahooGate.”

[Swiss]

If I gave up my yahoo account where would all my X-Rated spam go to?

On a related note a friend (cough cough) was touring a porn directory online when he saw on one a McCain/Palin banner and it never has banner ads.

When even the pornographers is coming out for McCain/Palin then it looks bad for Obama.