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A 22-year-old woman was arrested after authorities say she tried to hire someone to kill another woman whose photo appeared on her boyfriend
�s MySpace.com Web page. She was arrested after she met an undercover Mesa police detective at a grocery store, gave the officer $400 and offered to pay an additional $100 once the woman had been killed.
One day Lucy began to suspect that Ricky was being unfaithful to her, and reading his email confirmed her suspicion. She never told him that she was intercepting his email, and he never suspected that’s how she discovered his infidelity. Even after their divorce, she still keeps tabs on him by reading his email: he still doesn’t know.
A recent password management survey showed that 18% of office workers are suppose to remember 15 passwords or more. Only one third of them actually do. I would have to assume the other two thirds write their passwords down in their notebook or sticky Post It! note. I know on the internet I have dozens and dozens of passwords. What is one to do?
New services help safeguard outbound messages against forwarding and tampering.
People who want to open email from patent attorney Andrew Currier have to know the drill. First, they must answer a predetermined question, such as “Where did we first meet?” If they answer correctly, they will then be allowed to view the contents of the email — but they can’t alter it or forward it to anyone else.
Concerned about privacy, the Toronto-based lawyer has begun using a new service that encrypts his emails and tries to keep unintended recipients from reading the contents. The tool, developed by Echoworx Corp., adds a “send secure” button to his Microsoft Outlook email program. Unlike other email-security systems Mr. Currier has tried, this one doesn’t require recipients of his emails to download any software or use the same email program.
Search data stored by the likes of Google & AOL is a privacy timebomb. It’s time for these Net giants to hit the delete key. Most companies don’t routinely and purposefully delete their data. It costs more to purge than to store, so businesses take the path of least resistance. Historically, this has caused orphaned account information to linger.
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