House Judiciary Committee: Know Thy E-Mail Client
As a geek, I hate stories like this. The House Judiciary Committee wanted to send out an email to all of the anonymous tipsters in the DoJ US Attorneys scandal to tell them how much of a premium they are putting on their anonymity. They didn’t want them to think that there was any way that people in positions of power could retaliate for their whistleblowing. There are some things that just need to be done by competent people, and this is one of them.
When the email went out, all of the whistleblowers’ emails were in the To: field instead of the bcc: field. This means that every whistleblower could see every other whistleblower’s email address. Oddly enough, one of the apparent informants was the Vice President’s office. So now Voldemort has the names of all of all of the members of the Order of the Phoenix.
Can they be any more stupid?
Tags: Bush
This is the kind of thing I think about when conspiracy theorists claim that the government has the ability to do things in secret.
It’s not like Cheney didn’t already have all their emails anyway.
Yawn,…. I’ve been sleeping. Where are we on Kucinich’s Bill, which initiates the impeachment of Cheney? Did it go through yet?
(Two to one bet: the email was sent out correctly, but “got changed” in route)