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Dispute Continues Over Posthumous Yahoo! Mail
XPisthenewNT points out BBC coverage of the earlier-mentioned dispute between Yahoo! and the family of Justin Ellsworth. An excerpt: "Police sergeant John Ellsworth has sparked a privacy debate in the U.S. that has prompted many to reconsider who can access their e-mail. Mr. Ellsworth is locked in a legal fight with Yahoo! after his son, L/Cpl Justin Ellsworth, a U.S. marine serving in Falluja, was killed by a roadside bomb."
My son defused bombs in civilian areas while under enemy fire. He was over there saving lives. What have you done constructive lately?
Murder is killing an innocent person with intent or pre-medidation.
Killing a human that wants to destroy your way of life or kill you first is not murder...not that you care anyway.
But he did. He signed an agreement with Yahoo that they would not give away his stuff. They are honoring that agreement, and you want them to ignore it. I think that if he didn't give anyone access to his account, it's because he choose not to. When people go to a war zone, they tend to plan for contingencies. The fact that he didn't give anyone the info needed to access the account tells me that he didn't want his private info made public.
It's too bad you can't respect that.