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Volume 28 : Issue 89 : "text" Format
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Conficker Worm
Re: The Officer Who Posted Too Much on MySpace
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:02:09 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Conficker Worm
Message-ID: <p0624085ac5f68eae7989@[10.0.1.6]>
Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-088A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-088A.html
Conficker Worm: Help Protect Windows from Conficker
http://www.microsoft.com/conficker
The 7 Most Important Things to Know About Conficker
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2009/03/the_most_important_things_to_k.php
Is 'Conficker' Solved? Researchers Develop Scan Tool
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2344060,00.asp
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:13:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: The Officer Who Posted Too Much on MySpace
Message-ID: <fab97e20-3408-4301-bac6-254c3c85bf5e@l38g2000vba.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 30, 12:06 am, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> I find the use of a _subpoena_ for private writings rather disturbing.
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> The writings weren't private. YouTube, Facebook, and other such sites
> are, by design, public and available to all.
The article referred to the use of a supoena for the site database;
thus my argument.
Anything intentionally publicly written is of course public and I have
no objection to that use. My objection is the access of _private_
writings by subpoena.
> That said, the question becomes "Whose business is it"? The issue is
> not what he said or wrote, but rather whether he is entitled to a
> private life when not at work: in other words, if a police officer (or
> other civil servant) is ever "off duty".
Certainly people are entitled to a private life.
> This isn't about computers or social networking sites: the medium is
> being confused with the message. Had the officer said these things in
> a "cop's bar", he would have been immune from subpoenas because cops
> regard such places as safe havens where they may vent their
> frustrations with fear of being called to account.
Social networking sites represent a new area because of their very
wide distrubtion. As you may have heard, a kid was arrested for
posting inappropriate pictures of herself on such a site, even though
it was apparently restricted to her friends only. Suppose a kid, for
whatever reason, flashes herself to her friends in a public park.
Should she be arrested?
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