said by Steve :

..... her actions don't convey any kind of self-styled internet expertise, .....

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Security researchers' accounts ransacked in embarrasing hacklash
13th August 2008

On Sunday morning, security consultant Alan Shimel woke to discover that his personal blog, which is frequented by countless peers and reporters, was pointing to a website featuring explicit gay porn. Equally disturbing, he found someone had cracked open his Yahoo! Mail account and aired sensitive documents he filed with the Internal Revenue Service.

Oh, and while the miscreants were at it, they sent crude pornographic images to parents on the Little League baseball team Shimel coached.

The chief strategy officer for security firm StillSecure, Shimel is one of three high-profile researchers in the security world known to have been attacked by unknown criminals over the past week. A personal Gmail account belonging to Petko D. Petkov, of the GNUCitizen ethical hacking collective, was ransacked and 2GB of its contents made public. And logs believed to come from the home blog of Security-Protocols.com researcher Tom Ferris have also been exposed.
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.... The public attacks are the latest reminder that privacy on the internet is never guaranteed, even for those whose technical skills far surpass those of the average internet denizen.

"Personally, I don't keep any personal email on any webserver," said Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of White Hat Security and the only non-victim security researcher willing to be named in this story.
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