David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apparently the attack on your site has begun. Someone may not want the > information contained there distributed further. :-) >
If that attack is the best the government spooks can pull off, we have nothing to fear from the NSA. The hacker did not even get in; he left his nickname for anyone to see; and everything he might have gotten into is readily accessible from the screen he hacked. It reminds me of the Watergate break in. Everything the thieves tried to take they might have taken by walking in broad daylight, taking papers out of file cabinets, and Xeroxing them. There was no security. No one would have asked any questions. They might have sent someone in to work there as a volunteer who would have learned everything in a week. (My father was working there at the time and that is what he said.) In the 2008 Obama campaign, their get-out-the-vote (GOTV) call lists, scripts and everything else was freely available to anyone who logged into their site. They had hundreds of thousands of volunteers tapping into the database and calling people. Any Republican could have tapped into the database, called those people, and told them not to vote. A mischievous Republican might have pretended to be drunk Democrat, making abusive calls. I suppose some people did play some dirty tricks. The Obama campaign decided to ignore problems like that and make everything public because they figured they would attract more enthusiastic volunteers than people playing dirty tricks. They figured it did more good than harm. I expect they were right. Most people, most of the time, will do the right thing. Barring unusual circumstances -- such as leaving a large sum of money unattended in plain sight in a crowded airport -- most people are trustworthy and law abiding. - Jed
