Yah, I know, I am spamming my Facebook and Twitter pages with content I just published,but so it goes, until I remember to title my blog posts before publishing them.
Live and learn, right?
Perhaps the only good thing about making an embarrassing mistake in public is that it facilitates what experts at Wombat Security call a 'teachable moment'....and what is a teachable moment, you ask?
Ah...fodder for another post, coming in triplicate to my blog, Facebook and Twitter pages shorty...
Until then...below is a slightly revised version of my original, untitled post,
The latest on DigiNotar hack...however you chose to interpret the information, or whatever you make of how it was done, given that the Google webmail of as many as 300,000 Iranians *may* have been intercepted, it's fair to say that nothing online is really private these days: http://bit.ly/negcxJ,
Note:I am making an assumption that the 300,000 accounts belong to "average" Gmail users, or in this case, average Iranian Gmail users, who, if they are anything like their U.S. counterparts, may not take great pains to secure their email communications.
When I talk to my friends about how easy it is for their email to be compromised, I often hear that they don't care, or that they doubt anyone really cares enough about them to snoop.
Famous last words.
Net/net: If you want to keep your private business private, don't talk about it over email...
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