I'm amused that some commenters (here and at TechCrunch) are accusing Google as the primary fault. I would say the opposite. Gmail is not perfect, but it has plenty of security measures compared to other mail services.…
Disregarding the human "holes", I think the biggest hole here is Hotmail allowing expired accounts' usernames to be registered again. That should be a no-no considering the importance of the use of email as an identity.…
I'm amused that some commenters (here and at TechCrunch) are accusing Google as the primary fault. I would say the opposite. Gmail is not perfect, but it has plenty of security measures compared to other mail services.…
Disregarding the human "holes", I think the biggest hole here is Hotmail allowing expired accounts' usernames to be registered again. That should be a no-no considering the importance of the use of email as an identity.…