Leaving aside their more substantive failings, the technical mistake David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell are reported to have made is the failure to properly execute their anonymous digital email account. The point of such accounts is to create drafts only and leave no digital trail. In "Don't be a Petraeus: A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts," Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) tells you how to do it right. SBM Blog provides this information to you confident that your professional ethics and intelligence will prevent you from using this knowledge immorally or stupidly relying on it.
HT: Slaw
