By now, many of you have probably heard on the news that the email account of one of the VP candidates (Sarah Palin) was hacked last week. A lesson is to be learned from this: why you need to start using secure passwords that don’t include easy-to-find/know personal information about yourself or your family.
Read this Wired blog post, that includes descriptions from the hacker himself/herself of how s/he actually hacked into the account (there is some profanity, but it is germane to the story).
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