The Pitch...

E-Mail security. Finding the Balance.


We are going to start off the story by talking about E Mail. Almost every person around has an Email address, whether they use it or not. A lot of people share personal information through E mail and they should be able to because it is secure right? Well apparently not. Then we are going to touch briefly on the Sarah Palin incident, I mean she was a vice presidential candidate using a yahoo account. Anyway then we will get to the main point of our story.

To get an email address you have to fill out password and forgot password questions. Thats the norm and everyone is used to this. But, what the trouble is now is that the people in charge of these email services are finding it difficult to make a balance between securing your mail so noboby can get to it, while at the same time making it easily accesble to someone who has forgotten their email or user name. Because if its to easy then your email could be hacked into. If its too hard then people cant get back into their accounts.

We'll interview Matt, who is our resident computer genius, and ask him a variety of quetions on how the balance could be reached. We'll ask to regular average jooes probably one student and one teacher if they would rather be safe or be able to access their accounts once they cant get back in again.