Idiots Just Keep Surprising Me

Well, he is a Yank and a lawyer, so that is two strikes agin him in the great lottery of life but:

Lane's attorney, Paul Rosen, said it was outrageous that his communications with his client might have been compromised. "You can't imagine the discomfort of learning that Larry Mendte, who is working for CBS . . . may have had access to her most intimate and personal communications," Rosen said.

Now, I'm not condoning any computer crime - even the relatively minor one of looking at somebody else's email but ...

• Will people stop treating email as if it is some sort of secure system.  The analogy normally used is that it is like writing a postcard in pencil - trivial to read and easy to change.
• "may have had access to her most intimate and personal communications" - no, no, no! Please, don't do this on email and, not picking on Yahoo specifically but, if you have to use email, choosing a major web-mail provider is even less clever.
• "Lane's attorney, Paul Rosen, said it was outrageous that his communications with his client might have been compromised."  He needs to think about just how many ways email communication with his clients may be compromised.  Then he needs to start communicating sensitive information with his clients in a more sensible way.  This is, in the grand scheme of things - essentially trivial - a workplace dispute and 'hacking' that probably is no more technical than a guessed or shoulder-surfed password.  If Rosen was, for some reason, representing a suspected terrorist with FISA warrants and even more sinister espionage in place, his outrage is not going to balance the scales of justice.