Rhymes with "Slaughtergate"?

[womzilla]

Holy heck.

Thursday's Boston Globe covers a huge story.

Infiltration of files seen as extensive
Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1/22/2004

WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.

What a bland, innocuous headline, though.

How about

Republicans in Congress Break into Computers and Steal Confidential Files

?

Do you think that might get people's attention a little better?

Comments

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Oops, they did it again, huh./-:

Thanks for the link.

Files

[(Anonymous)]

Might. Wouldn't be true mind you -- everything they're saying suggests that the files were being stupidly stored in a common server without password-protecting the subdomain -- but the headline would certainly get more attention.

What it proves is that if you're going to leave incriminating memos around, you should encrypt them.

By the way, this is Charlie Martin....