How Simple It Is

I hate to say,

I Told You So,

(Actually I don't.)

But I Told You So!

Remember my July 3rd, 2015 Post called,

The Gray Hatter,

where I talked about

AOL Email

and how easy it would be to,

"blow their hopes and dreams right out of the water, if I was still into that kind of thing."

Here are the Headlines 1 day ago on MSN News. "High school student claims to have hacked CIA chief's personal email." Story by Andrew Tarantola for Engadget. "An unnamed source claiming to be an American high school student has contacted the paper with evidence that he had compromised the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan. Among the documents reportedly stored in Brennan's unsecured personal email: his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance, personal information (including SSNs) on more than a dozen top US intelligence officials and some damning emails discussing "harsh interrogation techniques" used on suspects. He claims that the 40 or so documents he accessed on October 12th were stored as file attachments. He reportedly gained access via a social engineering scam in which he convinced (soon-to-be-former) Verizon employees to provide him with Brennan's personal details and leveraging that information to get AOL to reset the account password. The account has since been disabled and the FBI is currently investigating the matter."

Let me say that one more time.

"High school student claims to have hacked CIA chief's personal email."

First of all,

why in the World would the head of the CIA be using

AOL Mail Service

in the first place?

Because,

maybe,

people are ignorant?

Or do you think,

just because they pay for a service,

they believe that service is using the money to keep their email secure?

Fat Chance!

It's Big Business you dofuss!

The Corporate Big Wigs are skimming as much profit as they can before everyone realizes that their service is prehistoric

and stop using it!

It's a wonder,

to me,

how people get so use to a specific Company

or Product that they believe the quality

and integrity of that Company

or Product won't suffer over time as

Corporate Greed

looks for new ways to skim profits from it's customers.

I,

myself,

have four email addresses going right now.

Sometimes I have more,

depending on what kind of website I'm signing up to.

I use

Yahoo

for all the sites which ask you to sign up via email.

I use

MSN,

which is a little more secure,

for all the correspondence I'll receive from Utility Companies, Schools,

and other Business who bore me to death.

I use

Gmail

which is a little more secure then the other two,

for this Blog

and another gmail account for my personal mail from family

and friends.

Now don't laugh.

You don't think this idea is safe either,

I know.

But you have to take in account

Human Nature.

Hackers,

like everyone else in life,

go for the easy marks first!

That is why they send out all those spam emails,
hoping you'll open it

and infect your phone,
tablet,

or computer.

It's a lot easier then trying to backdoor someone

or something.

(My old technique.)
As long as you don't open an email when you don't recognize the sender,
or use the
"Preview Pane,"
which lets the Spam's virus in without opening the full email,
you should be just fine.

Come to think of it,

it's time to change all my addresses again.

Can't be too careful you know.

Wait,

I forgot,

I'm lazy.

This is,

80% Of Social Network Members Receive Unsolicited Emails Or Invites,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“There are no secrets on the Internet”

- Paul Babicki -

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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