this morning, i discovered my email had been hacked. someone had actually obtained my password, and sent out a message to everyone in my address book (and if you use gmail, you know i mean EVERYONE) advertising an apparently oddly legitimate wholesale electronics website. luckily it happened when i was at my computer, so i was able to send out an apology to my entire address book just minutes later.
what a drag, thought i. i changed all the appropriate passwords and security questions (oh, those damn security questions. does anybody who is over the age of 5 really have a favorite color? that doesn't change? even today, i forgot my passoword to typepad, and couldn't remember how i had TYPED the answer to my security question. augh!). creepy. i hoped nothing else ill would come of it.
and then the nice thing happened. all these people that i love responded to my email. people i haven't talked to for...in some cases, years! i'm not sure what the metaphor is....echo? feedback loop? maybe a boomerang, that you thought was just a frisbee. now, to return a few of those emails....
I wish there was a way to punish hackers like this. That would have pissed me off for the rest of the day. Luckily, there's an unexpected silver lining.
Posted by: Kristen | May 07, 2008 at 03:58 PM