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Monday, July 23, 2007

 

Nevada governor accidentally posts Outlook password

‘If you ever wanted to be Nevada’s governor for a day, it doesn’t seem to be that hard.

In what could be a whopping security hole, Nevada has posted the password to the gubernatorial e-mail account on its official state Web site. It appears in a Microsoft Word file giving step-by-step instructions on how aides should send out the governor’s weekly e-mail updates, which has, as a second file shows, 13,105 subscribers.

The Outlook username is, by the way, “governor” and the password is “kennyc”. We should note at this point that the former Nevada governor, a Republican, is Kenny C. Guinn, which hardly says much about password security.’




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