So, it’s my turn to blog again, and while Apple preventing the Palm Pre from syncing music with iTunes was a very tempting topic, I kept on reading my news feeds this morning to find something even more interesting and just as predictable: Twitter employee’s Gmail is “hacked”, and confidential information is compromised. I placed the word “hacked” in quotes in order to point out that his Google account was not “hacked” in the traditional sense of the term; someone simply guessed his password.
Now would be the appropriate time for you, my dear reader, to think about your own Gmail/GoogleApps password, and decide whether or not it is easily-guessable by a would-be attacker. Here’s a quick guide to ensuring password security:
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