How to Keep Your Email Safer Than David Petraeus's

The Petraeus case is a strong example of the kind of invasion of privacy Internet privacy advocates point to. Rightly or wrongly, Petraeus lost his job when an investigation managed to attach his identity to personal matters he conducted online. The rest of us can learn from his mistakes to keep truly private emails private.

The Petraeus case is a strong example of the kind of invasion of privacy Internet privacy advocates point to. Rightly or wrongly, Petraeus lost his job when an investigation managed to attach his identity to personal matters he conducted online.

The rest of us can learn from his mistakes to keep truly private emails private.

Petraeus and his paramour had set up anonymous email accounts to exchange messages. However, a quick comparison of which other email accounts are accessed from the same IP addresses revealed the identities of the account holders.

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