European Parliament: MEPs, staffers have their emails hacked, should demand change
The French website Mediapart reports that at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, a technically skilled person managed to intercept 14 Members of the European Parliament and their staffers using trivial tools. (Original article behind paywall, English version, report by Der Spiegel in German.)
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Karsten Gerloff shared this.
Thanks for pointing this out! I've changed the title of the post.
In my view, this was still a benign hack: It's an effective way of pointing out the lousy network security at the EP.
But that distinction isn't an easy one to make clearly in a post aimed at a broad audience like this.
>> Karsten Gerloff:
“But that distinction isn't an easy one to make clearly in a post aimed at a broad audience like this.”
You don't need to make that distinction. Just talk about "cracked accounts", not "hacked accounts" =)