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Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account

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Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account

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> CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance Stories like these make me shudder thinking about the times I may have, at some point, included a document with personal information in an email, such as to a prospective landlord for verification. Even if I were able to keep my email account reasonably secure...I'm pretty sure all…

>Stories like these make me shudder thinking about the times I may have, at some point, included a document with personal information in an email, such as to a prospective landlord for verification.

I always insist on encryption for these sorts of things. I'm fairly certain that for everyone I've asked about an encrypted channel to deliver data, I've always been the first person to even ask. This includes hospitals, agencies who do background checks, etc. It's incredibly disturbing that no one else is insisting that their sensitive documents not just sit unencrypted in all these random in and out boxes.

Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account

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I'm less concerned about the hacker, and more concerned that the Director of the CIA not only has an aol.com email account but also uses that account to transmit sensitive information. I'm not just saying this to be a jerk - this should be grounds for immediate termination of his employment. This is clearly a guy who shows poor judgement with respect to the management of sensitive material. Also, from the article: "[…

So far I've seen zero evidence of sensitive information being on that email account.
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