A couple weeks ago I had come across an article written but a blogger that shared how to hack into free webbased email accounts like Yahoo. He spelled out exactly how to do that in his article. From what I am hear on the Fox news network. This is how the yahoo account of Ms Palin was broke into.
In my opinion, this is a major problem for people in the spot light that are using these free email accounts. All a web sleuth has to do is pay attention to details and bingo they tell you where they grew up, where they meet the significant other or where they were born. All of these details are just what these free site use for security questions. There needs to be a revamping of these questions and how they are being used to reset passwords. If we are going to continue to use these features. I think that due to the need of these free sites like Yahoo wanting to sell advertisement for revenue, we will soon see this revamping.
For more on the article mentioned in my blog please see http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/08/almost-everyone.html#posts
I would not advise trying this on a politition as the FBI might be knocking on your door tomorrow.
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