The real take-away lesson in that story is DON'T TRUST THE CLOUD Sent from my iPad
On Sep 28, 2013, at 11:17 AM, rmallett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/09/2013 18:03, Roger Bailey wrote: >> Hi Tony, >> >> James Fallows wrote an excellent article on his experience when his wife's >> gmail was hacked. Here is a link. >> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/hacked/308673/ Even >> with his top level connections with Google and the tech community, the >> recovery was difficult. Google changed some of their practices due to this >> exposure but the recovery process is still difficult. >> >> Good Luck, Roger Bailey >> > > Looks like the man's wife was not using an email client on her PC, but was > (and, for many years, had been) reading (and replying to) emails directly on > the Google servers, which is an obvious no-no. Much better to use an email > client like Mozilla Thunderbird, and use a backup program like Mozbackup. > > Of course, as the husband explains, if your ISP (and / or the provider of > your email account) is a multi-million customer company, then (a) the risk is > greater, and (b) the degree of support is less when something does go > wrong. > > If this is what it was like in 2011, you can bet that it will be worse > (rather than better) in 2013-14. > > I don't know who James Fallows is (or was) as I only read the first page > (which seemed to give the gist of what happened) but obviously his wife > enjoyed no special privileges from a largely automated system, as one would > expect. > > -- > -- > Richard Mallett > Eaton Bray, Dunstable > South Beds. UK > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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