I think this is a case that would be similar to one where an IT person or anyone else in charge of sensitive data used a weak password and thus caused sensitive data to be released or hacked into. If she didn't use this account to transmit government business, we wouldn't have been even talking about this in the first place because it never would have made headlines and the hack probably wouldn't have ever been discovered. Parts of the rules are that she use secure and approved (ie a government email account, not yahoo) methods to transmit government business for a few reasons. One it's secure and another would be that said business is saved and backed up for archival purposes and for access by acts like FOIA. SO yes, she is culpable in that she failed to use a secure account and she failed to properly secure her account. I would say the same for any government official regardless of their party.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Medic [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 10:57 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Palin email hacking case - guilty! > I though I made it quite clear I don't think you did. However if you are saying that regardless of the lack of wisdom on the victim's part that it's still a crime that should be punished then we really don't have a disagreement on the crime. We seem however to disagree on the culpability of the victim. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:317244 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
