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British Judge Uses Personal Email To Send Details of Sensitive Court Case (theregister.co.uk)
New submitter evolutionary shares a report from The Register: Concerns have been raised over a British judge's use of his personal email address to send out a ruling in a family court case, which contained sensitive personal information. The Register has seen evidence that the judge in question used two personal accounts to send out a draft ruling and final ruling: one using a domain owned by his son and another email account associated with iCloud. The use of personal email seems highly unusual - with all government departments subject to the mandatory guidance for securing government email. [One legal expert, who asked not to be named, told The Register that the judge's behavior raised a number of issues such as a possible breach of mandatory standards, and "may pose a risk to the organization he works for and those he interacts with outside the organization."
evolutionary adds: "The article doesn't specify the tone suggests emails sent were unencrypted."
evolutionary adds: "The article doesn't specify the tone suggests emails sent were unencrypted."
This is a Mac mail "feature". My wife is a lawyer, and she's had Mac mail send emails is ng the wrong account. Apparently, it does this automatically if the send fails through the first account you choose. Some of my co-workers have had the same problem, and came to the conclusion that Mac mail should never be used for anything but personal email.
As I mentioned in a separate post from my cell (which wasn't logged in), this is an almost hidden feature in Mac mail.
If you try to send an email from one email account (e.g. your "I'm a judge" account), and Mac mail fails to send it through that mail server a certain number of times, it can automatically decide to "help" and send that email through one of your other accounts (e.g. your "I'm also a dad" account or your "I also use iCloud" account). My wife just became a lawyer, and this happened to her a few times. She freaked because she can be dis-barred for that, and when she figured out what was causing it, she had to stop using Mac mail for professional/work emails.
The only real surprise is that the Mac mail app hasn't been outright banned by all companies everywhere. I know software developers who work on Macs have mentioned having the same problem when I asked about it (which makes it a lot less likely to be user error), and they couldn't find any way to disable this "feature". For the most part, they're stuck with using Outlook for business and Mac mail for personal.