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John Podesta’s inbox
The Democratic presidential campaign
The takeaway is this: your personal email is the portal to everything you do online. If it is compromised, *all* of your other accounts fall.
MATT TAIT, ex-gchq information security specialist1
It’s quite rare that a hack changes the course of history. But that may have been the case with John Podesta’s email.
Email has been the lifeblood of communication on the internet ever since people realized they needed a way to get in touch across time zones, and set up ways to send information asynchronously over the network. Many people over the age of 30 couldn’t comprehend trying to organize any tasks electronically without the use of email. Its drawbacks – lack of encryption, the difficulty ...
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