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24 May 2014

Why do we accept $10 security on $1,000,000 data? Internet

Last week we heard of yet another egregious security breach at an online provider, as crooks made off with the names, address, and birth dates of eBay users, along with encrypted passwords. They suggest you change your password, which is likely a good idea, and you better also change every other place you used the same password. But that's not much help since you can't change your name, address, and birth date, which are ever so handy for phishing and identity theft.

There is plenty not to like about the way that eBay handled it, but a more important question is why we tolerate big allegedly sophisticated companies treating our personal information so casually.

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  posted at: 23:06 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments
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17 May 2014

AOL has a security hole, and it's our problem Email
Two weeks ago I wrote about
Yahoo's unfortunate mail security actions. Now it's AOL's turn, and the story, as best as I can piece it together, is not pretty.

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  posted at: 17:31 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/aoldmarc.html

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