| | To me this could result in events like are occurring at the US | State Department Passport office where people are pawing through | files and records they have no legitimate business reading. |
Point of information: Folks with access and curiousity will always do this. It is nothing new, it happens in every firm, public or private sector. Perhaps I come by it honestly as my grandmother was the first telephone operator in our town and I grew up with party lines, but I have always looked. I worked in hospitals for fifteen years as a systems administrator and programmer and, of course, I looked at records because I was curious and capable. I "owned" the database of student records at a big name university and, of course, I looked. I had, as a kid, access to the records of my father's accounting practice and, of course, I looked. I've looked at x-rays of foreign bodies to be removed from unmentionable places. I've examined source code whenever it was misplaced on some public share. I've stared into windows while standing in the public street. I own a telescope. And binoculars. In other words, looking but doing nothing with what you saw had better not be a crime, or damned near everyone is a criminal. Even Sherlock Holmes. --dan _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
