The files have been deleted since my story went up, but, unfortunately for the governor's office, are still available on Google's cache: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alistserv.nv.gov --- http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747705-7.html July 20, 2007 10:00 AM PDT Nevada governor accidentally posts Outlook password Posted by Declan McCullagh If you ever wanted to be Nevada's governor for a day, it doesn't seem to be that hard. In what could be a whopping security hole, Nevada has posted the password to the gubernatorial e-mail account on its official state Web site. It appears in a Microsoft Word file giving step-by-step instructions on how aides should send out the governor's weekly e-mail updates, which has, as a second file shows, 13,105 subscribers. The Outlook username is, by the way, "governor" and the password is "kennyc". We should note at this point that the former Nevada governor, a Republican, is Kenny C. Guinn, which hardly says much about password security. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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