Re: Is your data safe? Maybe not


"outsider" <outsider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:io26q9$snb$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 4/12/2011 1:20 PM, bj wrote:
"Ellen K."<firstinitiallastname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I find it really difficult to believe anybody would put their tax returns
on their website, but...<shrug>


Considering what people put on Facebook, and all I've been hearing about
that lately, I'm not surprised to hear about any of this.
bj

Perhaps the posted tax return is a bogus attempt at enhancing his image,
and none of the information is actually true. Something of that sort makes
a lot more sense than plain stupidity.


One friend to whom I forwarded the original post responded as follows:

"Many people use the "Free web sites" offered by many ISP's as convenient
off-site/out-of-home backups, and just run a global FTP/backup program
to do their updates to their website/ftp site, not realizing that they
have put them in a public folder, even though it's not directly linked
on their website."

That sounds like a believable explanation.

.

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