[ale] "hacked" (was: gmail then Google Apps hacked)

[William Fragakis]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135661/Report_Hacker_broke_into_Twitter_e_mail_with_help_from_Hotmail



On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 13:32 -0400, justin caratzas wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong Jim, but I think he means we need to separate
> a service being hacked from an individual account being hacked.
>  
> In this case, an account was hacked, and boo-hoo on the account holder
> for picking loose security questions, or whatever it was.  GMail as a
> service was not hacked, which in that case it would affect everyone.
>  
> bigjust
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>
> wrote:
>         Did my post affect you?
>         
>         
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
>         Behalf Of Jim
>         Popovitch
>         Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:17 PM
>         To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>         Subject: [ale] "hacked" (was: gmail then Google Apps hacked)
>         
>         On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 05:59, Jeff
>         Lightner<jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>         > One reason why Google Apps and cloud computing isn't such a
>         great
>         idea:
>         
>         The word "hacked" has different meanings to different people.
>          I'm a
>         gmail user and I don't feel that the past "hacking" incident
>         affected
>         me one bit.  In fact an outage would be a bigger pain, but not
>         so
>         great to justify building/maintaining my own infrastructure.
>         
>         Did the gmail hack or twitter hack affect you?
>         
>         -Jim P.
>         
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