, SecurityFocus 2007-09-10
A Swedish security professional that posted the usernames and passwords for 100 e-mail accounts belonging to various nations' embassies and political parties revealed on Monday that he exploited the improper usage of the Tor network -- a distributed system of computers that anonymizes the source of network traffic -- to collect the information.
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This is a pitfall of uneducated users trying to use something that they didn't RTFM.
You get what you pay for. Lazy government officials that won't take the time to make sure they are not doing something half-assed. Hence the passwords equivalent to "1234".
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