From: William A Whitaker <whitaker@erols.com>
Subject: Using C can be punishable by jail time
Date: 2000/03/10
Date: 2000-03-10T19:01:27+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38C94672.551291CC@erols.com> (raw)
There really is good reason for Ada case insensitivy
March 10, 2000
White House issued threats
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Five Northrop Grumman
employees were so intimidated by
White House threats of jail that
one was nearly fired when she
refused to tell her own bosses
about the administration's failure
to turn over thousands of e-mail
messages under subpoena.
Newly obtained information
shows the White House
threatened to have the five
employees jailed after they found
� and reported � a glitch in the
White House computer system
that prevented the discovery of
more than 100,000 White House
messages involving campaign
finance abuses, Monica Lewinsky,
"Chinagate" and "Filegate."
...
The automated-records
management system at the White
House was designed to scan
e-mail "in-boxes" of every user
once every several minutes and
transfer copies of incoming e-mail
messages to a mainframe
computer, where they were stored
and searched for production in
response to subpoenas, Freedom
of Information requests and other
purposes.
The Northrop Grumman
employees discovered that
because one of the e-mail servers
was named "Mail2" instead of
"MAIL2" and because some
components of the system were
case-sensitive, the incoming
messages to the users of "Mail2"
were not collected between
September 1996 and November
1998.
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