[LINK] Yahoo tells Secret Service to get nicked...

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Finally!

I have been mystified about how google, facebook... managed to get so
much  publicity, when  yahoo's mailing lists, e-mail and search services seem to
have been overlooked.

Perhaps it is just that yahoo is bigger in the US than it
is here?

Marghanita
Sylvano wrote:
> Hackers break in to Sarah Palin's email
> 
> the interesting part of this story, really, is why yahoo webmail is being
> used to carry out government business....
> 
> Only the other day my partner was asking me why businesses would be using
> gmail.  "oh, you know," I said, "easy web  access, 7Gb storage, etc, etc. 
> But I certainly wouldn't."  But I can almost understand a mobile dog
> groomer, say, using gmail.  But a US VP wannabe?  Mind boggling...
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/42t8lh
>  or
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/hackers-break-in-to-palins-email/2008/09/18/1221330972701.html
> 
> The key para's are:
> 
> "The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press and asked for copies of
> the leaked emails on her Yahoo! account, which circulated widely on the
> internet. The AP did not comply."
> 
> "The disclosure raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin
> administration's use of non-government email accounts to conduct state
> business."
> 
> Sylvano
> 
> 


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