Jul

22

Hacked

I got yet another message this morning from a correspondent whose e-mail account had been hacked and hijacked. This is the fourth time in about a month that this has occurred among my contacts. This seems to be a growing concern and I’m wondering why now, after years of e-mailing, these accounts are being picked [...]

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Oct

29

E-mails and paper trails

The village’s recent purchase of e-mail archiving software and the expected approval of a new telephone system that would save phone messages as e-mails promises to enhance citizen’s access to government information via FOIA requests. It also suggests that casual voice mails, informal e-mails and even Twitter and Facebook comments are as open to public [...]

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