From J-Walk Blog:
Governmental Email Screw-Up
For $25/hour, they could have hired a geek who actually knows something about email: House Panel Screw-Up Reveals Whistleblower Email Addresses.
This summer the House Judiciary Committee launched an effort to collect tips from would-be whistleblowers in the Justice Department. The U.S. attorney firings scandal had shown that much was amiss in the Department, and with the danger of retaliation very real, the committee had set up a form on the committee's website for people to blow the whistle privately about abuses there. Although the panel said it would not accept anonymous tips, it assured those who came forward that their identity would be held in the "strictest confidence."
But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the website form, including presumably whistleblowers themselves, and all of the recipients of the email were accidentally included in the "to:" field -- instead of concealing those addresses with a so-called blind carbon copy or "bcc:".
And then...
The committee later sent out a second email attempting to recall the original email; it, too, included all recipients in the "to:" field, according to a recipient of the emails.
Cheney's email address was also on the list.
These same peeps are in charge of the IRS and Social Security - and they want to be in charge of your health care -- and make life/death decisions for you.
Governmental Email Screw-Up
For $25/hour, they could have hired a geek who actually knows something about email: House Panel Screw-Up Reveals Whistleblower Email Addresses.
This summer the House Judiciary Committee launched an effort to collect tips from would-be whistleblowers in the Justice Department. The U.S. attorney firings scandal had shown that much was amiss in the Department, and with the danger of retaliation very real, the committee had set up a form on the committee's website for people to blow the whistle privately about abuses there. Although the panel said it would not accept anonymous tips, it assured those who came forward that their identity would be held in the "strictest confidence."
But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the website form, including presumably whistleblowers themselves, and all of the recipients of the email were accidentally included in the "to:" field -- instead of concealing those addresses with a so-called blind carbon copy or "bcc:".
And then...
The committee later sent out a second email attempting to recall the original email; it, too, included all recipients in the "to:" field, according to a recipient of the emails.
Cheney's email address was also on the list.
These same peeps are in charge of the IRS and Social Security - and they want to be in charge of your health care -- and make life/death decisions for you.
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I once applied for a job with the fed gov I did not get it because I was over gualified even though I wanted the job. It became clear to me you have to be underqualified to have a job with the fed gov. Well it is evident that they have not changed their hiring practices
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