to me the most important point is that the kid said he was curious whether she did in fact use her yahoomail for government business. That's wrong no matter who's doing it.
I was working on stuff all weekend so I still have only looked at the one story about this, but unless there was testimony to the contrary that puts it in almost in a freedom of the press category. However, he wasn't press and didn't act as press. Where he weent wrong was posting the password. That disclosure takes it over the line from unauthorized pen test (very bad but ..) to malicious mischief. That STILL falls in a category of mostly stupid though and once you start weighing the stupid in this case, wow. I still can't get over the non-secret secret question ;) By the way, I dare any one of you to report that someone is reading your mail and see what happens, felony or not. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dana we agree on a great many things, and I agree that she was dumb to make > it too easy. > > However the best point yet has been (IMNSHO) tampering with someone's paper > mail is a serious offense. Possibly even a real federal felony with PRISON > time. > > Yet you don't even see this kid getting county time as being correct? You > don't see yourself being biased because of who the target was in the least > here? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 9:44 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Palin email hacking case - guilty! > > > ha, if your password is password you can expect all you like but... well. > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What Dana is saying is tantamount to saying that a woman who is raped >>> has some 'contributory negligence' if she dresses provocatively. >> >> >> >> I think you are absolutely right. And I also agree you've taken it to the >> nth degree, however I think it's a fair point. You can make your password >> "password" and *should* have the same reasonable expectation of privacy as >> someone who has a strong password. >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317168 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
