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How Even a Top Techie Can Get Hacked

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Lorrie Cranor wasn’t too worried when her phone died a few weeks ago, Brian Barrett reports on wired.com.

Dropped calls are as common as delayed trains and cracked screens. The next morning, it was still dead. Her husband’s was too.

And that’s how the chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission discovered that someone hijacked her mobile account, Barrett wrote.

For more on potential hacking problems: http://kenallensforum.blogspot.com/

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