On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: > You may not > have anything on your home machine so private that you'd > blush to have it broadast, but how many files are there > on the file server at work that your employers would prefer > stay inside the company?
When the first large scale worm that mailed random documents from the victims hard disk hit, a friend of mine that's a tabloid press reporter set up the news paper's mail system so that all incoming "random documents" (and they were many, since all that had visited the news paper's web site had their e-mail address in the web cache) got mailed to him. He then examined the documents and made several news stories out of it, including documents from lawyer's offices regarding celebreties and stuff. Eventually he got a bunch of mails from an army officer containing secret military documents. Feeling that this may be out of bounds for making news stories on, he contacted the officer who blankly denied that he had a virus. Desite repeated efforts on my friend's part, he insisted that he had virus protection ond was not infected. My friend then called the security officer at the regiment who within fifteen minutes took care of the situation by sending out an MP team who "removed the computer from the officers home". anders ------------------------- http://anders.hultman.nu/ << nu med dagens bild
