Here's how to secure your email and avoid becoming a ?Petraeus?

It was a shock when David Petraeus?a respected and highly-decorated Army general?abruptly stepped down from his post as the director of the CIA earlier this week. It was even more of a jolt to learn that his resignation was due to an extramarital affair. But, the real story might be the fact that the affair came to light more or less accidentally as a result of poor email and privacy practices.

First, a little background on how things went down. The affair between David Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell seems like something from the Showtime series ?Homeland,? or perhaps a James Bond plot line, but the events that led to the FBI investigation that uncovered the affair are a bit more ?Fatal Attraction.?

Broadwell sent anonymous threatening emails to another woman she considered to be competition for Petraeus? affection, and that woman?Jill Kelley?initiated the investigation that eventually unraveled the affair and led to the downfall of one of this generation's greatest American heroes.

I don?t want to teach anyone how to cover their illicit tracks better, or how to have a more clandestine affair, but let?s take a look at where Petraeus and Broadwell went wrong so you can understand how to cover your tracks better in general, and how to secure your email and protect your privacy online.

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