[governance] no regrets after doing this venture

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Eric

Many thanks for the resource.
I was just at the edge of cyber security, you know!

It was a great pleasure reading having that from you

Aaron

On 11/23/11, Eric S Johnson <crates at oneotaslopes.org> wrote:
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> Aaron, I don't think the issue is the browser. I very much doubt that "all
> IE users use Yahoo, and all Gmail users use Firefox." If you keep your
> browser patched/updated, there's not a substantial difference in security
> among the big three--each have dis/advantages.
>
> I don't know about Mac OS 10.X (Lion). I know at least one guru who's
> uninstalled it because of incompatibilities with other software--not,
> strictly speaking, a security issue, but ...
>
> Best,
> Eric
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: governance at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org] On
>> Behalf Of Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
>> Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 22:47
>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Eric S Johnson
>> Subject: Re: [governance] no regrets after doing this venture
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> May be you access your mail through Internet Explorer that is easily
>> vulnerable to hackers. You have to use FireFox and keep the hackers at
>> bay.
>> Imagine you being surrounded by fire. No Lion can come get you. No?
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On 11/22/11, Eric S Johnson <crates at oneotaslopes.org> wrote:
>> > What I’m curious about (sorry, not really governance-centric) is why
> it’s
>> > always Yahoo accounts which get hacked in this way.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I mean, yes, it’s true that Yahoo’s the only one of the big three
> webmail
>> > providers which doesn’t make it trivially easy to SSL one’s access (all
>> > Gmail access is SSLed, and Hotmail users can choose, in their settings,
> to
>> > “always use HTTPS”—though of course few do), but does that mean we
>> suppose
>> > the hackers have in-line access to our webmail traffic on the level of
> the
>> > ISP? Or at a public wifi hotspot? Or in a cybercafé? But why Yahoo
> instead
>> > of Hotmail?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Eric
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: governance at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org] On
>> Behalf
>> > Of Shahid Uddin Akbar
>> > Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 18:17
>> > To:
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Aaron Agien Nyangkwe
>> Journalist-OutCome Mapper
>> Special Assistant to Tha President
>> ASAFE
>> Telephone:237 33 01 30 13
>> P.O.Box 5213
>> Douala-Cameroon
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