Hacking the account was DEFINITELY illegal. The Secret Service and the FBI are already involved. The news, such as it is, is hardly noteworthy.
Amateurs did this. Pros would not have posted screen shots with the full URLs of the proxy server. The guy who runs the proxy server has already said he'll cooperate with the government, and he thinks he can trace the users from his logs based on the information in the URLs. Sounds like Watergate, doesn't it? As if this election couldn't get any freakier. On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Dana wrote: > yeah well... courts are sort of famous for allowing the first > amendment. Who knows any more though. My understanding is this -- the > documents are news. They confirm that she used her YAHOO ACCOUNT FOR > CRISSAKES to conduct government business in an effort to avoid > subpoenas. > > Hacking the account was probably illegal. They may be able to pressure > the owners of the website to name their source for the documents. That > there is a grey area. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269855 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
