New York cop in alleged love-polyhedron email hack spree A New York detective allegedly hired hackers to spy on 19 fellow cops and at least 11 others - apparently in a bid to discover if any of them were sleeping with his ex. Edwin Vargas, a 42-year-old Bronx investigator, is accused of spending $4,050 on an email-hacking service to obtain the usernames and passwords for 43 message …
Eddy,
There is a secret to life you just have got to learn before it's too late.
No woman will ever be worth the kind of trouble you got yourself into, no matter how good the sex was.
Once you became exe's, that should have been the end of it regardless of any offspring. Give it up and move away if you have to, but just forget about it and get on as best you can. They are not worth your life.
"Once you became exe's, that should have been the end of it regardless of any offspring. Give it up and move away if you have to, but just forget about it and get on as best you can. They are not worth your life."
I dunno, I'm still close friends with many of my exes.
"..the Contacts section of his Gmail account included a list of at least 20 e-mail addresses, along with what appear to be telephone numbers, home addresses, and vehicle information corresponding to those e-mail addresses,"
Good Lord - what kind of sick, crazy, criminal psycho would keep contact details in the contacts section of his Gmail account? I bet there's even evidence on his computer that he - gasp! - LOOKED AT WEBSITES!
(I better rush off now and wipe everything from my Contacts in case the FBI are watching me....)
If I read this correctly, it cost this guy $4K to get the passwords to 20 email accounts. Furthermore, I assume these mailboxes were hosted on random email providers, not just one flawed NYPD email service.
Think gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc...
Does it mean our email privacy is so badly protected in practice that cracking it is only worth $200 if you find the appropriate Joe Random Hacker to work for you? Chilling.
More at:
http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/fbi-arrests-nypd-detective-on-hacking-ch/240155332
Sound expensive to me...
One approach would be to try the first few entries from a most popular password list, it wouldn't be successful every time, but does that matter? Another would be to trick the victim into installing a keylogger - also depends on the victim not having good security awareness.
Really, unless you are using end-to-end encryption, email is no more secure than writing your message on a postcard. So, yes, email privacy is an oxymoron.
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