I am referring solely to the fact that her account got hacked. I do not think she bears any blame because she did not use security measures that we (as IT professionals) may use.
Her privacy was violated (or whatever the law was the kid broke). Period. End of story. As I have said repeatedly, if we start placing blame on the victims, we are basically legitimizing the crimes and saying the victims deserved it. The fact that some wrongdoing may have been found does not change my opinion of this. What was found would likely never be admissible in court even if it was illegal (As Sam pointed out, apparently a judge in Alaska has said it was not illegal). We cannot start to think that the ends justify the means..for anyone, ever (and, yes, I think that should include illegal immigrants). On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > I'm curious where you feel her role as a public official comes into > play with this. She was using the Yahoo account for government > business and seemed to indicate that she was doing so, in part, to > evade public records laws. If someone in her office had seen damning > emails in that account and put them out there, I would consider it a > valid case of whistleblowing as she was using the account for > government business. This case is obviously different because it is > someone outside the whole deal who gained unauthorized access and then > put everything out in public view. I don't think that's right but on > the other hand, I think that correspondence in her official capacity > in that account is fair game for being looked at by the public. So I'm > a little conflicted. > > Judah > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> As was pointed out earlier, we pretty much agree on this, except for >> the culpability of Palin. >> >> You think she bears some of the blame for what happened. I disagree with >> that. >> >> In my opinion, when you start placing blame on the victim you are >> almost validating the crime and/or saying that they deserved it. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317370 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
