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UK Politician Criticised For Using Hotmail

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @09:51PM from the make-better-choices dept.

nk497 writes "The UK justice secretary Jack Straw has been criticised for using Hotmail as his official government email account after he apparently fell foul of a Nigerian spammer in a phishing attack. A security researcher said using such an account not only left the government in security trouble, but meant any emails sent could not be necessarily accessed via the Freedom of Information Act."

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Re:Not government account by wisty · 2009-02-25 23:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It is important that he keeps his communications private.
It's not like he is some tin-pinny official like the Governor of Alaska, running for Vice President of the United States of America. His job is really important!