Journalists in China said their Yahoo email accounts were hacked

Some journalists in China said their Yahoo email accounts were hacked, see the URL:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100330/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_internet

My advice is that they should give up Yahoo email service which lacks HTTPS encryption in the web session. In Sept 2005, a Chinese journalist named Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment because of talking June 4 in Yahoo email which was intercepted by the China Great Firewall.

By all means and for avoding being caught because of reporting sensitive matters, they should use Gmail which is fully encrypted.