This story intrigues me:

George Bronk, 23, was arrested in late October after police found evidence that he’d hacked into more than 3,200 e-mail accounts. He used the same technique that Sarah Palin hacker David Kernell used to break into the former U.S. vice presidential candidate’s Yahoo account: He scoured his victims’ Facebook accounts for answers to the security questions used by Web-based e-mail services such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail.

Then, posing as his victim, he would claim to have forgotten the account’s password and try to answer the security questions that would let him back in. Often, the security questions are easy to guess. The questions Bronk faced asked him things like, “What is your high school mascot?” and “What is your father’s middle name?”

Once in, he would change the account password — locking out his victim — and search for any racy photographs. If he found any, he posted them to the victim’s Facebook profile.

Of the 3,200 accounts he broke into, Bronk found nude or semi-nude photos in 172 of them, prosecutors said.

What I learned from this article was that 5.375% of women have nude photographs of themselves stored within their email accounts. Interesting. Presumably, that is a smaller subset of women who posses digital photographs of themselves nude. I wonder what percent?

Will knowing this information make you think differently about 1/20 of the women you know?

Tags: Facebook, Nude Women

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