I may have mis-stated that, O’Reilly said that anyone who down loaded and passed on the information is liable.
Look, just imagine if this was FreeRepublic that allowed purloined personal information to remain on the site and be passed on to others. If you think that Jim Robinson would not be held responsible, you’re fooling yourself. They would fight it, but they would, at the very least be tried in the press, their web server would be under attack and at the very least, they would be forced off the ether-net.
What I want to know is, was this web site one of the sites that were vetted by the Obama campaign to cover the Obama nominating convention?
Having worked in the field of information security for some time and having worked on criminal cases involving breeches of security, I'm telling you that it's not going to happen.
They would fight it, but they would, at the very least be tried in the press, their web server would be under attack and at the very least, they would be forced off the ether-net.
Which is itself a crime.
What I want to know is, was this web site one of the sites that were vetted by the Obama campaign to cover the Obama nominating convention?
Not as far as I can tell. There are millions of blogs out there. Only a handful have the kind of following that lend themselves to being noticed by a presidential campaign.
More interesting to me will be Yahoo!s response to all of this. They've had a lot of security problems in the past but nothing that's gotten this kind of press.
How they handle it will indicate whether they are in the tank for 0bama and whether there was help from inside of Yahoo!