Wednesday, May 30, 2007

[USA] Did A Prank Domain Registration Open Up The Administration's Email Secrets? / TechDirt.com, 29 May 2007
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070525/123513.shtml
"Not being a political blog, we're not so interested in the latest political scandal brewing from the administration, which supposedly involves a leaked email that highlights some more potentially illegal actions out of our Justice Department. However, what is interesting is what David Cassel pointed us to about how those emails were leaked. The details aren't entirely clear from this interview with the reporter who has the emails, but it looks as though some web pranksters who registered domains like whitehouse.org and georgewbush.org have been collecting emails that are sent to those domains. Occasionally, people who think they're emailing someone at whitehouse.gov or georgewbush.com address their emails to the .orgs instead."