Re: [Paddlewise] I Did It! (yup another cracked account)

From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk_at_rockandwater.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:05:58 -0400
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:41:27AM -0400, Kirk Olsen wrote:
> Sigh.  Another aol account with a weak password.  For anyone using aol
> or yahoo for email.  Make sure you have a decent password, unless you
> want malware, or in this case a link to a viagra site, to be sent from
> your account, to everyone in your address book. 

I'll go one step further: avoid freemail providers if you can.  There
are serious issues with the quality of services from Yahoo and Hotmail
(and have been for a decade), AOL dismissed its entire senior postmaster
team last year, and Google seems much more focused on pushing its social
network initiatives than dealing with spam/phishing conducting from and
via its services.

Remember, you are NOT the customer of these operations: you are the product.
You'll likely do much better with an inexpensive but capably-managed email
account elsewhere.

---rsk
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