Calif. AG Files Felony Charges In HP Probe

PreacherTom writes, "Former Hewlett-Packard Chair Patricia Dunn, along with 'ethics chief' Kevin Hunsaker and others, was indicted yesterday on four felony counts by the California Attorney General. The charges, including wire fraud and conspiracy, carry a maximum penalty of 12 years in prison and $30,000 in fines. The indictments follow on the heels of an HP investigation of internal leaks that conducted "bugged" emails to C-Net reporter Dawn Kawamoto, illicitly obtained hundreds of phone numbers, and spied on HP board members." One of the indictments was for a private investigator retained by HP. The article has links to the complaints and warrants.

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Re:Darn, they didn't get Carley too.

[Ravenscall]

It was an accidental moderation, due to the new mod system autoapplying mods, I meant to mod it funny. I am undoing my mods to this post.

Re:For those of us who don't want to RTFA...

[TheNumberSix]

I actually watched the C-SPAN hearings on replay last Saturday (stop looking at me) and they didn't use such a simple technique as an embedded gif in an HTML mail.

They used this company right here. The particular technology that they use is an embedded tracker in a PDF attachment that contains the text the victim wants to see.

This neatly gets around people with email clients that block loading of remote images, or even people who don't allow html mail. (How many people actually have Acrobat Reader blocked from internet access? Damn few I would think.)