[privacy] California: Angelides Campaign StafferDownloadedGovernor's Comments

[Richard M. Smith]

Oops, did someone leave open a directory?  For heavens sake, why don't *all*
Web servers default to access denied when asked to show a directory with no
index.htm or equivalent file?  Enquering minds would like to know.....

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:AlexE at sunbelt-software.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 6:30 PM
To: Fergie; privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: Re: [privacy] California: Angelides Campaign
StafferDownloadedGovernor's Comments

Well this is interesting:

"Using a link from a Schwarzenegger press release, the staffer was able
to manipulate the web address and access a large number of audio files."

Alex
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg at netzero.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:57 PM
To: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: [privacy] California: Angelides Campaign Staffer
DownloadedGovernor's Comments

Via The San Francisco Chronicle.

[snip]

The manager of Democrat Phil Angelides' gubernatorial campaign
acknowledged Tuesday that two staff members downloaded a controversial
audio file containing private comments of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and
leaked it to the media.

Cathy Calfo, Angeldies' campaign manager, said however, that the
campaign did nothing improper and insisted that the file was left
available on a public Web site.

"There was no hacking, no password, no expertise required," she told a
news conference.

The California Highway Patrol has opened an investigation into whether
the file was obtained illegally. Calfo said no one at the campaign had
been contacted by the CHP.

[snip]

More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/MNGSOL43OV4.
DTL

- ferg

p.s. Extra bonus fun story:

"Girls Gone Wild company pleads guilty in sex exploitation case "
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/12/state/n12274
2D10.DTL

:-)


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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