KYW CBS 3's Larry Mendte probed for snooping on Alycia Lane, sources say

[DToTheJ]

Additionally, many people naively use the same password for all protected accounts so they only have to remember one. If she used the same password for her station Microsoft account, he may have had access to it and used it to go fishing in her personal Yahoo account from home.

And the only way he could have access is if he knew her password.

And if you nonchalantly type in her CBS3 username and her Yahoo password, with a "let's give it a whirl" mentality, that would be reason to suspect invasion of privacy.

 

[carnyfeet]

Again, you need a password to access the e-mail. If he hacked to get it, he would be in trouble. If she gave it to him, then he was given permission to look. If at some point that permission was denied, then she should have changed the password. Don't put me on the jury, I would throw the case out as soon as it was sent to the jury to decide unless he hacked her computer to get the password.

Or you can install a simple keylogger program that runs in the background and keeps track of what keys were pressed when Alycia logged into mail.yahoo.com at 8:48am this morning...

Why wouldn't you use Yahoo as your main account?

Because GMail is so much better than Yahoo

 

[aunti-terrestrial]

And if you nonchalantly type in her CBS3 username and her Yahoo password, with a "let's give it a whirl" mentality, that would be reason to suspect invasion of privacy.

Or, if the media suddenly has its hands on private emails you've received from sports anchors' wives, or if your former employer suddenly has knowledge of private correspondence between you and your attorney, and it just so happens that your former co-worker has been in your email account hundreds of times, that might also be a reason to suspect invasion of privacy.

 

[imhomerjay]

Whether or not Alicia Lane used one easy-to-guess password for all of her e-mail, or someone installed spyware to track her keystrokes, or something else entirely is irrelevant. She could have taped her password to her desk, it doesn't give anyone the right to enter her e-mail account, period. Now it's up to the authorities to try to determine if that happened or not.

 

[carnyfeet]

Again, you need a password to access the e-mail. If he hacked to get it, he would be in trouble. If she gave it to him, then he was given permission to look. If at some point that permission was denied, then she should have changed the password. Don't put me on the jury, I would throw the case out as soon as it was sent to the jury to decide unless he hacked her computer to get the password.

Or you can install a simple keylogger program that runs in the background and keeps track of what keys were pressed when Alycia logged into mail.yahoo.com at 8:48am this morning...

bumping this post to say:

Sources said an internal investigation at the station found that software that secretly captures keystrokes - including passwords - had been installed on a station computer.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080623_Larry_Mendte_fired.html