Using C can be punishable by jail time

Using C can be punishable by jail time

[William A Whitaker]

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.