Passport Files of Presidential Hopefuls Snooped

CNN is reporting on the widening brouhaha that began when Barack Obama's passport file was accessed illegally on three occasions beginning in January. Now it seems that John McCain's file was also snooped; and that last year Hillary Clinton's file suffered the same fate. Ars Technica nails the real importance of these breaches, saying that the Presidential hopefuls are "...currently providing the country with a very public lesson in why the 'privacy advocates' who oppose initiatives like Real ID and the executive branch's domestic surveillance programs should really be called 'democracy advocates.' In short..., the entire incident shows exactly why citizens' privacy is critical in a country where citizens compete with one another for control of the government."

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Re:What's private about passport records?

[TheRaven64]

Haven't you noticed slashdot becoming more of a political "tool" then a place to discuss news for nerds I hadn't noticed it, because I blocked all stories by kdawson from the front page. I unblocked them last week to see if he had stopped posting unresearched crap to back up his political position. He hasn't, so I'll go back to blocking him again. I suggest everyone else does the same until Taco gets a grip and fires him. It's not like there's a shortage of interesting tech news that he could be posting, after all.

Re:3 days old 'news'

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

3 days old 'news'
I miss the old Slashdot. You miss week old news?

I'm not saying this to be funny, but I've been around Slashdot since 2000, and this was ALWAYS a complaint.