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aside note folks....there has been a very severe increase in spurious attempts to hack email accounts if you by accident email any person in China ...I recently had to stop sending any email comments to Chinese developers via email..

Not sure if its widespread but there was a significant uptick recently.

This not legal advice or even security advice..but take care

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Yup. For anyone who is a security type IT person at your company, make sure you send out bogus phising emails to employees to see who falls for it and what type of data they give away. At my work if you fall for it the first time then you get training not to do it again. If you fall for it a second time, terminated. They just consider it to be too high of a security risk to keep you around if you fall for it a second time.

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