Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Whoops! Nevada

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The files have already been deleted considering that my tale went up,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, but, regretably for your governor's workplace,Microsoft Office Professional 2007, are nonetheless offered on Google's cache:
--- July 20, 2007 ten:00 AM PDT
Nevada governor accidentally posts Outlook password
Posted by Declan McCullagh If you should ever needed to be Nevada's governor for a day, it doesn't seem to get that really hard. In what might be a whopping safety hole, Nevada has posted the password towards the gubernatorial e-mail account on its official state Internet webpage. It seems in a very Microsoft Word file giving step-by-step instructions on how aides should deliver out the governor's weekly e-mail updates, which has, as being a second file shows, thirteen,105 subscribers. The Outlook username is,Microsoft Office 2010, incidentally, "governor" and the password is "kennyc". We need to note at this point that the former Nevada governor, a Republican, is Kenny C. Guinn, which hardly says much about password protection. [...remainder snipped...] Posted by Declan McCullagh on Jul 20,Office Professional Plus 2010, 2007 in category privacy


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