<div>I believe that most cases of email "hacking" are going to be like this, where a security question "whats my favorite cat's name" is easily answered by going to someone's flickr page.</div>
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<div>kudos to that "hacker", and shame on the accound owner. Again, I don't care about "attacks" like these. The day I read about gmail being attacked because of some combination MITM, XSS, and GPG flaw (for when it supports it in the future /want), then I get worried and care.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM, William Fragakis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william@fragakis.com">william@fragakis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135661/Report_Hacker_broke_into_Twitter_e_mail_with_help_from_Hotmail" target="_blank">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135661/Report_Hacker_broke_into_Twitter_e_mail_with_help_from_Hotmail</a><br>
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<div class="h5"><br><br><br>On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 13:32 -0400, justin caratzas wrote:<br>> Correct me if I'm wrong Jim, but I think he means we need to separate<br>> a service being hacked from an individual account being hacked.<br>
><br>> In this case, an account was hacked, and boo-hoo on the account holder<br>> for picking loose security questions, or whatever it was. GMail as a<br>> service was not hacked, which in that case it would affect everyone.<br>
><br>> bigjust<br>><br>><br>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jeff Lightner <<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>> Did my post affect you?<br>><br>
><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On<br>> Behalf Of Jim<br>
> Popovitch<br>> 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<br>> 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<br>
> great<br>> idea:<br>><br>> The word "hacked" has different meanings to different people.<br>> I'm a<br>> gmail user and I don't feel that the past "hacking" incident<br>
> affected<br>> me one bit. In fact an outage would be a bigger pain, but not<br>> so<br>> great to justify building/maintaining my own infrastructure.<br>><br>> Did the gmail hack or twitter hack affect you?<br>
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