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Electronic Burglary in the Senate
earthworm2 writes "The Boston Globe is reporting that Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee have spied on confidential Democratic files for a year, studying their strategies and passing on the juicy bits to the media."
Microsoft backs the Republicans.
Microsoft shares exploit with the Republicans.
Democrats get sodomized.
Fuhrer Bush and Reichstag Security Head Ashcroft smile.
You KNOW it's true because it's on slashdot!
That's why I'm a... damn!
W@tergate ??
Old COBOL programmers never die. They just code in C.
So I misread that as "Electronic Buggery in the Senate".
If the files were supposed to be confidential, shouldn't they have been protected?
And if the Republicans are hackers doesn't that mean we should be supporting them??
Since information wants to be free and all.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
it is confirmed that Nixon will be replacing Cheney as Bush's running mate in the upcoming elections...
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I Hit the Karma Cap, and All I Got Was This Lousy
After all, the Democrats were against the war, and thusly terrorist sympathizers!
We are exactly 20 years off on our calendar.
Further investigation reveals that the Democrats were using Usenet for their correspondence.
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They should have used Digital Rights Management:
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Stop spoiling my well-ingrained stereotype of republicans as slack-jawed rednecks who couldn't crack into a nut, let alone a computer! How can this be? :)
These sigs are more interesting tha
told the RIAA that there were GOPs sharing music in Senate. That would have gotten them all sued and surely lead to a decline of unshared online documents.
It is believed that the Gops used a new p2p network called "Democrapster"
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
They had to do it. The Democrats are a threat to national security. Heck, many of the voted against the Patriot Act.*
*note: This is sarcasm.
Hmmm, Republicans use unethical means to determine Democrats also unethical.
File this under: double plus obvious, tell us something new.
Thou Shalt not be suprised when the documents saved in a public share show up the the Wall Street Journal.
This story is appalling, but also ancient. Let's
bring it back out closer to election time, though,
when it is again relevant.
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Power corrupts."
And PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
The Patriot Act allows Republicans to look at any computer files they want.
-- cloudnine --
Maybe the "technician" set the password to "liberal" for the Democrats and "conservative" for the Republicans?
According to the Distinguished Gentleman from Utah, an appropriate response to the Republicans' illicit trafficking in Democrats' documents would be to destroy the Republicans' computers... right?
It's not like anybody got a BJ or anything.
here's hoping he goes to the theater to see a play.
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Very little; all his life
*braces for impact of (-1, Troll) mod*
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
"members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos"
my god, that is horrid. GWB commanded his subversive agents to go through Democrat documents inserting phrases like:
think of the power of Howard Dean in a Beowulf cluster
i don't have any WMDs ... you insensitive clod!
all your polling booths are belong to us
i'd just LOVE to pour some hot grits over Ann Coulter
Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." - Lenny Bruce
...Slashdotters were for file sharing.
Since it will take months to sort out whether a crime was committed, I've drafted a summary of expected consequences for people who do this sort of thing:
Please note that the RIAA may seek additional punishment if the material was copyrighted. So kids, think before you act
"They had an obligation to tell each of the people whose files they were intruding upon"
Doesn't that kinda take all the fun out of reading someone else's email?
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Do I have to spell EVERYTHING oput for you?
obviously not.
Err, the US invasion of Cuba and the Philippines was part of the Spanish-American War and is actually considered to be the beginning of the Imperial Era in the US (although it could be argued that it began in 1890, when the census revealed there was no frontier). The US invaded Cuba because the Spanish were basically herding them into concentration camps. Well, actually, it was because the US had a $100M annual trade with Cuba. I guess it would have been analogous to invading Iraq to "free the Iraqi people." And we invaded the Philippines because...well...we could.