Gmail the Petraeus Way: A Scandal of Sloppy Security

It's fair to say that neither General David Petraeus nor General John Allen will be delivering any lectures on email security any time soon.

Both men have become ensnared in scandals that could easily have been avoided, had they and their supposed paramours simply remembered the cardinal rule of email. Which is this: write every single one, even your draft emails, as if it were about to be broadcast to the entire nation.

The more of the story that gets uncovered, the more we learn it turned on dumb email practices. Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell, the AP reported Monday, communicated to each other via his personal Gmail drafts folder. Apparently the director of the…
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