The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40
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#2I can't tell whether this is a testament to the incompetence of public IT operations or an indictment of public records keeping practice. Maybe both?
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#3I can't tell whether this is a testament to the incompetence of public IT operations or an indictment of public records keeping practice. Maybe both?
Probably both. Or maybe just a story about a thing that happened.
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#4So they accidentally included the first 256 characters for all the emails? yikes.
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#5It's clear they didn't have expertise to do it, and I'm tired of reading people that know way more looking down at others over it and assuming they don't want to comply. If they hiding something and malicious, the end result wouldn't have been to send way too much, but I don't see the author realizing this fast enough.
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#6It's clear they didn't have expertise to do it, and I'm tired of reading people that know way more looking down at others over it and assuming they don't want to comply. If they hiding something and malicious, the end result wouldn't have been to send way too much, but I don't see the author realizing this fast enough.
I'm not sure why you think the only malicious response would be to send over too little. It's a common enough scene in TV shows and the like where a malicious actor attempts to hide incriminating information in a sea of irrelevant information.
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#7I'm confused, why was he looking for this information?
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#8> After that call, I asked my lawyer to reach out to their lawyer and was pretty much told that Seattle was approaching the problem as if they were pursuing Computer Fraud And Abuse (CFAA) charges. For information that they sent. Jiminey Cricket..
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#9I'm confused, why was he looking for this information?
My guess? To look for government employees whose networks are tightly coupled to a special interest or significant person/party.
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#10I can't tell whether this is a testament to the incompetence of public IT operations or an indictment of public records keeping practice. Maybe both?
Well, like most of Seattle's efforts, it gets fucked up, mostly because it is from Seattle.
Note: I am a Seattle resident and I expect nothing less.