Comments on: Office worker jailed for exposing his ex-boss’s private emails

By: David Scrimshaw

David Scrimshaw — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:58:38 +0000

Hi Mark,

I understand what you’re saying. It is just that to my mind, the privacy violation was the big crime.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:43:10 +0000

I was just making the point that when taking down people who commit criminal acts, it isn’t always the “big crimes” that the prosecutors focus on but instead the little things. They got Capone for tax evasion and they got this idiot for privacy violations.

I’m not sitting in judgment saying that one crime is more serious than the other.

By: David Scrimshaw

David Scrimshaw — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:18:24 +0000

I can’t agree with the Al Capone analogy.

Violating someone’s privacy and causing them deep humiliation seems much more serious to me than unauthorized file retrieval from a computer.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:02:12 +0000

Better moral: don’t put in writing anything that you don’t want to see on the front page of the New York Times.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:52:01 +0000

True moral of the story? Don’t send compromising email.

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:45:52 +0000

dang, there goes my future plan.