Broken Troll, Zotgate!

Boston Globe ^ | 01/22/2004 | Charlie Savage

[braun]

"WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.

From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics.

The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already launched an investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in the pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a website last November.

With the help of forensic computer experts from General Dynamics and the US Secret Service, his office has interviewed about 120 people to date and seized more than half a dozen computers -- including four Judiciary servers, one server from the office of Senate majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, and several desktop hard drives."

[Old Sarge]

Cyber-Watergate. Listen to the howls from the Left.

[martin_fierro]

Hope you enjoyed your oh-so-brief stay.

[MEG33]

Naughty ,naughty!

[lilylangtree]

Hot dang! Good work Pub staff members.

[leadpencil1]

Takes one to know one.

[austinite]

Yawn.

braun Since Jan 22, 2004

[AppyPappy]

Please don't change titles. It was posted under the original title

[r9etb]

Buh bye....

[OldFriend]

If the site could be accessed without a password, what is the crime?

[Ed_in_NJ]

Those rats really know how to protect sensitive data, don't they?

[The SISU kid]

TROLL ALERT!!!

[Neets]

Here is some more Break News .

[My2Cents]

It's about time the Republicans took advantage of the stupidity of the Democrats in the Senate.

[4CJ]

... members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch ...

Computer glitch .... AKA , a Windows operating system ...

[petro45acp]

That's what happens when you put your files onto a shared drive!

some "security glitch".............stoooopid dems! Of course it is par for a bunch of hoplophobic, luddite, fire hating, stone age loving, looooooooosers!

[The G Man]

"conservative-leaning newspapers"

Hmmmm … by extension, a subtle admission that there indeed exist (*GASP*) … liberal leaning newspapers???

[mass55th]

"Those rats really know how to protect sensitive data, don't they"

Gives you an idea of how they'd handle the security of the nation doesn't it?

[Neets]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, that's better.

[NormB]

That was hug.