Thus, the police can serve the ISP providers with a search warrant and get the information turned over without notifying an e-mail account holder.

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He came to her house, and armed with a modem, he set up an e-mail account and hooked her up to the university's computer system.

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Registry also awards you an automatic e-mail account on Hotmail, which will enable a lot more direct connection between Office and the world.

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Furthermore, someone can gain access to an e-mail or social network account using sniffing methods, without needing that person's password.

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Remember that the IRS will never send an unsolicited e-mail about your tax account or tax matters.

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In January 2012, O'CEARRBHAIL hacked into the personal e-mail account of an officer with Ireland's national police service, the An Garda Siochana (the "Garda").

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Other IM programs don't require that--users of AOL Instant Messenger, for instance, might have a totally different IM name than their e-mail address, or might not even have an AOL account at all.

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The authorized account holder is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.

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I've skimmed The New York Times, read a few updates on Facebook, checked a Yahoo account that consists mostly of spam and spent a disproportionately long time writing an e-mail connecting two friends in Beijing.

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