<div>Correct me if I'm wrong Jim, but I think he means we need to separate a service being hacked from an individual account being hacked.</div>
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<div>In this case, an account was hacked, and boo-hoo on the account holder for picking loose security questions, or whatever it was. GMail as a service was not hacked, which in that case it would affect everyone.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jeff Lightner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Did my post affect you?<br>
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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:17 PM<br>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>Subject: [ale] "hacked" (was: gmail then Google Apps hacked)<br><br>On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 05:59, Jeff Lightner<<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> One reason why Google Apps and cloud computing isn't such a great<br>idea:<br><br>The word "hacked" has different meanings to different people. I'm a<br>gmail user and I don't feel that the past "hacking" incident affected<br>
me one bit. In fact an outage would be a bigger pain, but not so<br>great to justify building/maintaining my own infrastructure.<br><br>Did the gmail hack or twitter hack affect you?<br><br>-Jim P.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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