[SlowToady]

I think the big deal stems from the fact that what he likely stumbled on to was an underground monitoring organization who was watching those email accts. So, he was watching the watchers.

But, yea, if that's the hack of the year, it's been a lame year. I've heard much better stories

SSL being broken real-time? I dunno...something like that, he'd have told someone, and it likely would have made headlines by now. Or someone else would have found it. I guess it's possible though. If it happened...:-X

He's probably in trouble for the fact that he published the user names and passwords on his website.