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What connected in my mind about this whole sordid mess was recently my son (a programmer) needed me to come to his home to allow the cable guy in to hook up cable.

When my son returned home and was quizzing me about how things went, I mentioned that the cable guy said the computer was online. My son nearly flipped out that I had allowed the cable guy to type on his keyboard. Wanted me to tell him exactly what he typed. Well I had NO clue that I needed to watch or that I should not have allowed the cable guy to touch the keyboard.

Stunned and open mouthed I asked WHY, what is the problem. My son then launches into the explanation which basically is that is it possible to launch spyware programs onto his computer and he might not ever detect them.

Now considering that and the AIM hacking that apparently left AIM breached earlier this decade sent signals off in my mind about the possibility of the 'semi' production of some of the emails and most definitely the IM's were the work of someone else other than the supposed chatters.

That is why to me 'penelopesire's' connection of the whose who on capitol hill web servers makes complete sense to me.

Providing the web user service is the back-door to whatever bit of intel gathering for those who are of the mind to do it.

Stopsexualpredators.com could be or could be a total distraction.

My son nearly flipped out that I had allowed the cable guy to type on his keyboard. Wanted me to tell him exactly what he typed.

For FReepers that use Mozilla's Firefox as their web browser, I invite you to perform the following commands, then get readdy to fill yer drawers...

Click on Tools and select "Options".

Click on the Privacy Icon, then select the Passwords tab.

You will see a rectangular box labeled "View Saved Passwords".

You will then see a list of all your accounts listing the web links and userids.

(This is the "Fill yer drawers" part). Now you will see a button labeled "Show Passwords". A new column is added that does just that.

Now you can fix this through this interface by utilizing the "Master Password" feature. The problem is this is not implemented by default and you likely do not eaven know of the issue. This is especially important if you take your computer to a repair shop or have anyone else sharing access to your machine. Likely, you even have sensitive information to things like bank acounts. PLease check and by the way, this problem may not be limited to Firefox - ie other browers may have similar "features".