Are E Mails secure?

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I would never do this to anyone, i was wondering, this:

Are E mails 100% secure? how would someone go about getting into anouther persons e mail account without knowing the password or secret answer?

so are e mails really has secure has we are led to think??
 
lucifers angel said:
I would never do this to anyone, i was wondering, this:

Are E mails 100% secure? how would someone go about getting into anouther persons e mail account without knowing the password or secret answer?

so are e mails really has secure has we are led to think??
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I've no idea how secure you've 'been lead to think' but they aren't secure at all. The only way to make them so is to use encryption - GOOD encryption.
 
It's VERY easy to obtain the password of someone's email of whom you know. Let's say it's my school teacher, and I ask him to go to my webpage(some how I convince him, it isn't too hard). A little bit of PHP coding emails that person with the address of whatever the hell you want it to be, although I'm not sure if you can email from a .gov. Anyways, you can probably email them and it might be from a Yahoo! Administrator and demand they email their password back, make them click on a link which gives them a keylogger, or keylog the original site. You can't really "hack" into someone else's email, from my understanding, but you can always bruteforce it, which is having a program send requests to the site asking if the password is a or aa or aaa and so on.
 
Every Email that you send or recieve is copied by whoever your Email provider is. They hold onto your records for over a year and those records can be seen by anyone who wants to view them , legally speaking that is.
 
Also, if the web mail is used on your own computer, you can recover the password used.

Regarding Palin:

Details of this week's break-in, if authentic, were consistent with speculation by computer security experts who said Yahoo's "forgot-my-password" service almost certainly was exploited. The mechanism allows customers to retrieve or change their password if they can verify their identity by confirming personal information such as birthdate, zip code and the answer to a "secret question," such as a childhood pet's name or school mascot.​
 
In electronics there is no such a thing as 100% secure, so the answer is no...
 
The thing is with Politicians they lead very public lives, this means pretty much all their information can be retrieved far easier than just an average citizen. I would suggest this is what occurred in this particular cases, all that can be said is don't use Words in passwords, use both capital and lower case where you can, numbers and also symbols. Sometimes you can even get away with using ASCII, although for the most part forms on the internet tend to react weird with ASCII input unless you've Copy/Pasted it in.
 
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Also, if the web mail is used on your own computer, you can recover the password used.

Regarding Palin:

Details of this week's break-in, if authentic, were consistent with speculation by computer security experts who said Yahoo's "forgot-my-password" service almost certainly was exploited. The mechanism allows customers to retrieve or change their password if they can verify their identity by confirming personal information such as birthdate, zip code and the answer to a "secret question," such as a childhood pet's name or school mascot.​
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That is indeed how he cracked her account. He knew her birthdate and zip code, and guessed "Wasilla High" as the response to 'What high school did you attend?'. He was in.
 
These "secret questions" have always shocked me. If you now a little about the person, they can be broken in with no prob. That's why I always invent my own imaginary answers to these questions, whenever I'm asked.
 
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