Cloudy with a chance of hacking

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

Following closely upon the article/confession about cloud linked accounts and 
devices, and the ease of hacking them (with some interesting points about 
authentication systems):
http://m.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

I noticed, this morning, that the number of phishing messages, and specifically 
email account phishing, had, after a couple of relatively low months, suddenly 
jumped again.


Excessive convenience almost always = insecurity.  I have not linked any of my 
socmed accounts.  Facebook doesn't have my Twitter account password, etc.  This 
is somewhat inconvenient, since I have to sign on to the different accounts in 
order to post things.  However, it does mean that, in the case of this type of 
story, I can just use it as an example and move on, rather than spending time 
changing the passwords on all my accounts.

======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
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people always do that, but the really great make you feel that
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