Monkeys beware Ancestry.com said it closed portions of its community-driven genealogy site RootsWeb as it investigated a leaky server that exposed 300,000 passwords, email addresses and usernames to the public internet.
funny YD .. ya never know ya might be the Queens 8th cousin this can lead to phishing, identity theft, plus other bad stuff n things since most folks are lazy stealing the Ancestry.com RootsWeb passwords can allow them to steal paypal, ebay or bank accounts
Have a problem with Ancestry etc, the Lakota were not known for their written records and somehow in the destruction of their way of life and culture, most of the verbal history was lost. Have always thought that the Jewish custom of tracing back through your mother showed a good handle on the realities of life in the real world.
Mormon Church Family Ancestry joins forces with Ancestry.com. What could go wrong? Oh yes....Proxy Baptisms. No non-LDS corpse is safe from them. I don't give a toss about passwords and other stuff...(as I don't do Ancestry.com)....I don't want any LDS voodoo magicking me to Kolob Holocaust victims and Queen Mother posthumously baptised by Mormons Catholic-Mormon tension over LDS baptism of the dead http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=56830408&itype=CMSID
Hmmmppphhh Another Stupid Admin trick. Ancestry.com makes extensive use of Amazon Web Service (AWS) for compute and data storage purposes. I would bet dollars to a stale plain donut that they put the less active, or cold accounts in an S3 bucket to lower the storage costs. AND left the default setting for public access. Exactly the same thing Verizon, Accenture, Dow Jones, and others have done. I don't have an account with Ancestry, but gross stupidity like this infuriates me...
Yeah when they check your DNA and match it up to a murder or you may be the cure for what ever it's a data base to keep track of who is who and what can be used to fix some one else
