What makes it a crime is that she is supposed to only use government email for government business and not use personal email for government business. Maybe I should type slower for you Sam?
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:07 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Palin email hacking case - guilty! I'm confused. You think she's guilty because she hid in plain site public sensitive information that is publicly available using FOIA? On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Er ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:317260 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
