On 09/11/16 13:34, Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
Quoting David Turk (davemarkturk@me.com): I mention this because many people think the recent blow-ups resulted from a Putin state-intelligence plot to break into major USA political institutions' sensitive computer networks. The truth appears to be rather less dramatic and rather more pathetic.
Yes, it is often the simple things that get exploited, not the complex "hacks"... If it is true that having just 10,000 passwords will give you 1/3 of ALL Internet accounts, then it is surprising that even more breaches haven't occurred as humans cannot create secure passwords (typically). I'm pretty sure that Mark Burnett's collection of passwords and his understanding of their use from his "hobby" interests in this manner, well, I think he can speak for himself. [1]. Besides all of that. Emails are simple just textual object (which may become files or part of a file store of emails) that, if not protected, can be changed to say ANYTHING. Protecting them involves something like GPG signing, anything else and it is fully open to be completely re-written by anyone .... Cheers AndrewM [1] https://xato.net/10-000-top-passwords-6d6380716fe0#.urf74sh58