I expect the impact of lost customers and reputational damage will be much costlier than free. I wonder how many of their clients include questions about how recent their last security incident was in their vendor risk assessments (and if they always respond truthfully).

Eagerly awaiting part 4 in this series. Great info so far!

They also tell you about real letters and packages, though.

Email was widely in use even before the Gmail beta launched in 2004. Free webmail services like Hotmail, Yahoo were already available, and ISP accounts typically included email. But it seems unlikely people would have used it to submit scanned versions of signed submissions for the birthday book.

Paul Revere only had the one piece of breaking news, and it was truly newsworthy.

Please do not reference me in that claim.

That's what I said

Hang on - I'm someone from Twitter who mailed Airborne to your office (in February) ... but that's not the copy I mailed to your office.

This is what someone does if they want to increase the likelihood and impact of the next pandemic.