Running a security blog means that I’m always interested in receiving tips about data breaches, vulnerabilities, malware attacks, and the like.
But I do explain that I’m not available to help troubleshoot PC problems or provide technical support – there simply aren’t enough hours in the day, and it doesn’t put any crumbs on the dining room table.
Furthermore, I make it pretty explicit that I won’t tell you how to hack your partner’s Facebook account because you suspect they’re cheating on you. Oddly this seems to be one of the most frequent requests I receive.
This morning, however, I received a very polite message from a reader of the blog.
Part of the message reads:
I want you to hack an email account which is :[REDACTED]@gmail.comI’m not able to hack this is plz help me for that and after hacking email it’s password to me because I want to use it as my Google account I’d plz sir /madame plz plz plz…. Plz help and you you have to keep yourself promise as you said above plz
I don’t know why my correspondent doesn’t simply ask (in a similarly polite fashion) for the owners of the gmail address he’s interested in to kindly give it to him.
Surely if he says plz enough they’ll be happy to oblige, no hacking required!
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The chap who emailed me said on my online form that he’s happy for me to publish his name. Maybe ..
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