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Delta Air Lines Sued Over Alleged E-mail Hacking
alphadogg writes "Delta Air Lines is being sued for allegedly hacking the e-mail account of a passenger rights advocate supporting legislation that would allow access to food, water and toilets during long delays on the tarmac. Kathleen Hanni, executive director of Flyersrights.org, alleges Delta obtained sensitive e-mails and files and used the material in an attempt to derail the 'Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights of 2009,' of which four versions are pending before Congress. The suit was filed on Tuesday in US District Court for the Southern District of Texas and seeks a minimum of $11 million in damages. Flyersrights.org, a nonprofit organization founded in 2007, had been investigating surface delays in air travel."
They'd also be entitled to clean air and access to medical treatment.
Who does she think she is, the Pope?!
I'd be sure to "accidentally" leave my password lying around in plain sight.
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Train vs. plane is certainly an option, except for track right-of-way.
Train vs. car has major problems in that once you are there, you need your car to get around. Usually this is the whole reason for taking the car in the first place.
Then there is the right-of-way problem. Trains were replaced by trucks for most freight in the US around 1960 or 1970. I believe there was some major deregulation that changed the cost structure for trucking about that time. This pretty much ended passenger rail service in the US which was supported by freight. Having to rely on just passenger fares led to massive cutbacks and absurd delays. I took a train once from Chicago, IL to Columbus OH in 1975 and it only took about eight hours longer than driving would have.
So they ripped up all the tracks. If you want to go from Phoenix to LA by train you have to take the bus to Flagstaff first. The land where the tracks were has been sold off and stuff built there in many cases. The day of the train is pretty much over in the US because of this. I suppose where there are tracks, mostly in the East, you could have some kind of faster rail service. But that is what they tried with the Acela - it isn't very good. Certainly not up to the standards in other countries where they have preserved the tracks from the 1800s.
Mostly the era of trains has been ended because there isn't anywhere to put the tracks into major cities any longer. We could probably have monorails combined with Interstate highways, but nobody has built a monorail in a long, long time - except maybe Disneyworld. We could dig tunnels for the trains, but that would be incredibly expensive with today's technology. Neither is very likely.
One way or another, the climate folks aren't going to shut up until there is actual proof. One way to get some proof - positive or negative - would be to cease passenger air travel. It is a luxury that we can give up in the name of gathering some real evidence. Sure, it is going to put millions of people out of work, but that might be a small price to pay when compared to some of the other ideas. So who knows, we might have to tear down miles and miles of buildings to rebuild the train tracks.
If Delta's found to have done this, all their executives should have to sit in an airplane on the tarmac for a week. With no food, or bathrooms. There's some poetic justice!
The corps are just trying to protect themselves so they don't have to shut their doors tomorrow.
Who do you work for, you corporate lickspittle? I'm sure the fucks at the top of Enron were only trying to avoid having to "shut their doors tomorrow."
Classic.
You want to know what's classic, asshole -- the bitch Lay whining and puling that "We had to sell one of our twelve mansions in a struggle to maintain liquidity". I'm sure all the poor bastards who went down because of her and her husband's evil, selfish actions were just lining up to kiss her poor, bleeding ass.
Another story on the lawsuit currently circulating on the wires includes this nugget: "Through a spokesman, Delta denied that it was involved in any hacking. 'Obviously, the idea that Delta would hack into someone’s email is clearly without merit,' spokesman Trebor Banstetter wrote in an email."
He's quite right. There are outside companies you can pay to do that for you.