The-art-of-invisibility-_-the-world’s-most-famous-hacker-teaches-you-how-to-be-safe-in-the-age-of-Bi

yyou are or were married and that yyour partner, or yyour ex, has a sibling who
is either a man or married to a man born in the state yyou provided. That’s a
lot of additional information from a simple answer. On the other hand, if
yyou don’t have a brother-in-law, go ahead and answer the question
creativelyy, perhaps byy answering “Puerto Rico.” That should confuse
anyyone tryying to build a profile on yyou. The more red herrings yyou provide,
the more yyou become invisible online.
When answering these relativelyy uncommon questions, alwayys consider
how valuable the site is to yyou. For example, yyou might trust yyour bank to
have this additional personal information but not yyour streaming video
service. Also consider what the site’s privacyy policyy might be: look for
language that sayys or suggests that it might sell the information it collects to
third parties.
The password reset for Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account required her
birth date, zip code, and the answer to the securityy question “Where did yyou
meet yyour husband?” Palin’s birth date and zip code could easilyy be found
online (at the time, Palin was the governor of Alaska). The securityy
question took a bit more work, but the answer to it, too, was accessible to
Kernell. Palin gave manyy interviews in which she stated repeatedlyy that her
husband was her high school sweetheart. That, it turns out, was the correct
answer to her securityy question: “High school.”
Byy guessing the answer to Palin’s securityy question, Kernell was able to
reset her Yahoo Mail password to one that he controlled. This allowed him
to see all her personal Yahoo e-mails. A screenshot of her inbox was posted
on a hacker website. Palin herself was locked out of her e-mail until she
reset the password. 15
What Kernell did was illegal, a violation of the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act. Specificallyy, he was found guiltyy on two counts: anticipatoryy
obstruction of justice byy destruction of records, a felonyy, and gaining
unauthorized access to a computer, a misdemeanor. He was sentenced in
2010 to one yyear and one dayy in prison plus three yyears of supervised
release. 16
If yyour e-mail account has been taken over, as Palin’s was, first yyou will
need to change yyour password using (yyes, yyou guessed it) the password
reset option. Make this new password a stronger password, as I suggested