Nah. I doubt anybody really cares about my x rated communiques with my girlfriend.
All web mail is a joke from a security standpoint.
Numerous sites explain how to crack any and all of them.
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.
Something just struck me about the images of the emails.. Where are all the spam emails?
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.
We should start referring to this as “YahooGate.”
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.
It was not easily hacked. She used an easily identifiable personal question: Where did you and your husband meet?
It could still be hacked, of course, just as if someone REALLY want’s your car, they’re gonna get it.
On one of mine, the question is what was your first car. I have a very specific answer, right down to the transmission. It is still hackable, of course, but ups the bar.
My motto, regarding my car, is that the last time I locked my car, not only was my tape deck stolen but my window was boke too.
Use number and letters both caps an lowercase, and if possible something like a $ # etc in there somewhere. Give 10 characters total and let em try to break that
Hey, X, ya know, it really doesn’t matter to me how much protection she used in her email. The fact of the matter is that it was HER email, and nobody should be looking at it. Period. It is the same as somebody looking through your mail, your garbage, your medicine cabinet... it’s personal stuff that they do not belong looking into. It’s NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS!!!!!
There, glad to get that off my chest :>)
I have some sort of Yahoo account, because I use the Yahoo groups.
I have NEVER sent a single piece of e-mail from there. I probably received one or two, but I wouldn’t know because I’ve never looked.
I use a provider-based e-mail for my REAL world work, and some hotmail accounts for my blogging and registration stuff. I wouldn’t care if the hotmail got hacked. I would be surprised if my other e-mail got hacked.
Anything on the net can be hacked. That’s why I don’t have my personal information online except address and phone number which anyone could get anyway.
If people want to hack meaningless chit chat and expose it, be my guest. I’ll survive the examination.
Just one more reason why I always advise against using a web-hosted email service for anything besides junk. I’m no genius, but I at least know that much.
I am email you sending daily about medicines and rollex watches and never you answer me why?
I use yahoo mail. It is the throw away addy I use when registering at sleazy forums. It is the spam magnet address I use.
Gmail is used for some other purposes.
My ISP address is ONLY for family or close friends.
Bottom line, if someone hacked into my yahoo mail they would see a few hundred spams and not much else. Why should I worry about that?