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Security Ethics
May. 15th, 2007 06:14 pmHot rumor: Karl Rove staffers sent email to the wrong address. Instead of mailing whoever@georgewbush.com, they mailed whoever@georgewbush.org. The guy who owns georgewbush.org is apparently not a Bush fan, so the emails are in Greg Palast's hands.
Taking advantage of this, of course, is morally wrong. As one Democratic Senate staffer said:
"They had an obligation to tell each of the people whose files they were intruding upon -- assuming it was an accident -- that that was going on so those people could protect themselves. To keep on getting these files is just beyond the pale."
Yeah, I'm being snarky. That's a quote from the time the Republicans noticed that they had the ability to read Democratic private files by accident. You could make a marginal argument on the premise that the emails were sent, whereas the Republicans had to go get the files from the fileserver, but as a system administrator? I don't buy it.
Taking advantage of this, of course, is morally wrong. As one Democratic Senate staffer said:
"They had an obligation to tell each of the people whose files they were intruding upon -- assuming it was an accident -- that that was going on so those people could protect themselves. To keep on getting these files is just beyond the pale."
Yeah, I'm being snarky. That's a quote from the time the Republicans noticed that they had the ability to read Democratic private files by accident. You could make a marginal argument on the premise that the emails were sent, whereas the Republicans had to go get the files from the fileserver, but as a system administrator? I don't buy it.
