So as a I was going through the local news on msn I read that Govenor Palin's yahoo email account had been hacked into."The hacker guessed that Alaska's governor had met her husband in high school, and knew Palin's date of birth and home Zip code. Using those details, the hacker tricked Yahoo Inc.'s service into assigning a new password, "popcorn," for Palin's e-mail account, according to a chronology of the crime published on the Web site where the hacking was first revealed."-msn.com I was shocked! But also not surprised. Considering the technology today with myspace and facebook sites like that people can find out almost everything about you. Meaning that all they needed to do was to click the 'forget my password' button and research the hint question given. Which is exactly how the hackers did it. According to msn news Palin used this account as a personal legal business account. Most people said the emails found weren't anything to throw a red flag up about. But this is nothing big but I thought it was interesting that a Governor running for VP, has such an easy and personal email address that hackers can find. Hmm, not my pick for a VP.
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