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Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared
Tiger4 writes "Verizon has confirmed that some of its employees have accessed and perhaps shared calling records of President Elect Barack Obama (coverage at CNN, Reuters, AP). Verizon says the people involved have all been put on leave with pay as the investigation proceeds. Some of the employees may have accessed the information for legitimate purposes, but others may have been curiosity seekers and may have even shared the information around. The account was 'only' a phone, not a BlackBerry or similar device, and Verizon believes it was just calling records, not voicemail or email that was compromised. The articles do not mention the similarity to the warrantless wiretapping or hospital records compromises of recent months. But that immediately sprang to mind for me."
This is something new, the citizens wiretapping and spying on the president. I guess we truly will see change with Obama.
Reverse traces.
They were probably investigating a complaint from the Governor's residence in Alaska. All those mysterious calls that would just be insane, taunting laughter, then a hang-up.
Probably just a wrong number, but still, you can never be too sure.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
No more coffee for you.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Any sufficiently lost encryption key is indistinguishable from a one-time-pad
Never heard of him. You talk as though he was some kind of Super Star like Rajnikant.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Hollywood is the US national religion, more popular even than Christianity. The mere sight of a film star drives the masses to ecstasy, people want to touch them...
Some religions would hold that at least one commandment is being violated - something about false gods or idols or something
Of course not. That's why we should get a law passed to make it mandatory. It'll be tough to pass, but I know a couple palms we could grease (off the record, of course)
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If he's doing nothing wrong he's got nothing to worry about.
Right?
No sig today...
Didn't Rush tell you? It's because he's a crazy mixed-breed half A-Rab half Aztec TER'RIST! *waves hands spookily* Boogety boogety boogety!
Bill Clinton had terrible taste in women. I really do not want to see any of his partners in *anything* transparent.
I hate printers.