2 May
2014
2 May
'14
12:27 p.m.
(Despite the subject line, this follows up a digression by correcting some mistaken information about an e-mail attack on AOL.)
On 5/2/2014 12:33 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
BTW, that blog [http://onlinegroups.net/blog/2014/05/01/dmarc-taking-responsibility-sending-...] also says
The attackers succeeded in accessing about 20% of AOL users’ email accounts and obtaining details of their contacts.
I hope that means that AOL is now down to the 100 Stupidest On-Line Americans, of whom 20 were fooled.... But I digress.
What it actually means is that onlinegroups.net miscopied the percentage from the AOL blog! The figure given by AOL is 2%. (Discovered because I'm a compulsive looker-up of sources....)
-- Larry Kuenning larry@qhpress.org