The talk about Sarah Palin’s Yahoo emails being made public (you can easily find them, but believe me, they aren’t worth the time to read) bring up yet another reason to not post your birh date on various social networks. Granted, a public official is probably an easier target, but apparently access to her Yahoo account was made easier by the fact that she chose information that just about anyone could easily figure out to recover her password.

Of course, why she was using a Yahoo email account for government business is an entirely separate issue. Our governor here in Missouri (who is not running for higher office, let alone re-election) can tell you why that is a bad idea. Perhaps this will motivate a few more people to use encrypted email, or at least pick up the telephone, when they want to keep something private.