If she had to “guess” the answer to a security question, then she was definitely not where she belonged. What she did, if not unlawful, was definitely immoral and unethical. My opinion of her actions does not mean I support the husband’s position — he is absolutely in the wrong on all counts.
If he had given her the password, then she has full access to the email, in my opinion. I don’t know if that is what the law says. But, if something is password protected and you don’t have the password, isn’t that trespassing?
It seems to met that the court got this wrong. If they want to use the mail analogy, perhaps it should have been viewed as the difference between an opened letter being left on the counter in public view vs an opened letter in a personal safe. The daughter in-law thus would have been effectively breaking and entering when breaching the password protection. That said, I can’t for the life of me figure out why the name of the “other woman” was material to the wife as the husband already admitted to the affair.
This is why you always delete ALL emails private or not. I do nothing wrong in my life but always act as if someone is spying on me, Delete everything, send encrypted emails and FORMAT your drive at least once a year. Be safe.
Let’s all take this moment to think about our own passwords, passwowrd hint, secret questions/answers etc. Your online security is only as good as its weakest link. Are all of your online accounts set up using something like a gmail.com email address? In other words, let’s say you forgot your bank password. If you click ‘forgot password’ does it send a new link/password to your Gmail account? Do you ever use the same password for multiple sites? Are your ‘secret questions’ easy to guess, public knowledge, etc?
Many people are surprised by the ease with which a motivated person can compromise one or several online accounts. And many do not think about possibilities such as how a guessed Google secret question might lead to carte blanche access to any accounts linked to that email account.
I guess I am trying to think of it in context of mail, as in mail from the post office. Just because I know your address doesn’t mean I can go to your house and take the mail from your mailbox, open it, and read it. I guess I feel this is the same thing. Sure, I understand the ease in which one can do it, but that doesn’t mean they have the right to read mail, albeit email, not addressed to you. And wait, aren’t you the same poster who went on a rant about not letting the government have control of our information to use it against us? I’m surprised by your answer, to be honest.
Using the same logic, then if I fire up midnight commander and mozy on over to /var/mail I could read the judges private email, or DHS’s inbox or really anyone who has an unix inbox.
Sarah Palin, should have been disqualified as a security failure, she knew damn well not to use Yahoo for government business, she shouldn’t been running for potus, she should be doing jail time for breaking security policy.
The judge is wrong, and if I ever get to be a juror I will nullify this bs. Meanwhile encrypt everything is the lesson here, so punk ass judges can’t screw people over.
If she had to “guess” the answer to a security question, then she was definitely not where she belonged. What she did, if not unlawful, was definitely immoral and unethical. My opinion of her actions does not mean I support the husband’s position — he is absolutely in the wrong on all counts.
I agree with Ruminator.
If he had given her the password, then she has full access to the email, in my opinion. I don’t know if that is what the law says. But, if something is password protected and you don’t have the password, isn’t that trespassing?
It seems to met that the court got this wrong. If they want to use the mail analogy, perhaps it should have been viewed as the difference between an opened letter being left on the counter in public view vs an opened letter in a personal safe. The daughter in-law thus would have been effectively breaking and entering when breaching the password protection. That said, I can’t for the life of me figure out why the name of the “other woman” was material to the wife as the husband already admitted to the affair.
This is why you always delete ALL emails private or not. I do nothing wrong in my life but always act as if someone is spying on me, Delete everything, send encrypted emails and FORMAT your drive at least once a year. Be safe.
Let’s all take this moment to think about our own passwords, passwowrd hint, secret questions/answers etc. Your online security is only as good as its weakest link. Are all of your online accounts set up using something like a gmail.com email address? In other words, let’s say you forgot your bank password. If you click ‘forgot password’ does it send a new link/password to your Gmail account? Do you ever use the same password for multiple sites? Are your ‘secret questions’ easy to guess, public knowledge, etc?
Many people are surprised by the ease with which a motivated person can compromise one or several online accounts. And many do not think about possibilities such as how a guessed Google secret question might lead to carte blanche access to any accounts linked to that email account.
I guess I am trying to think of it in context of mail, as in mail from the post office. Just because I know your address doesn’t mean I can go to your house and take the mail from your mailbox, open it, and read it. I guess I feel this is the same thing. Sure, I understand the ease in which one can do it, but that doesn’t mean they have the right to read mail, albeit email, not addressed to you. And wait, aren’t you the same poster who went on a rant about not letting the government have control of our information to use it against us? I’m surprised by your answer, to be honest.
Agree. The “inbox” should be treated the same as the mailbox.
Only in South Carolina
Tell that to the hacker of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account.
He did exactly the same thing, but was charged and convicted and sentenced on felony counts.
Using the same logic, then if I fire up midnight commander and mozy on over to /var/mail I could read the judges private email, or DHS’s inbox or really anyone who has an unix inbox.
Sarah Palin, should have been disqualified as a security failure, she knew damn well not to use Yahoo for government business, she shouldn’t been running for potus, she should be doing jail time for breaking security policy.
The judge is wrong, and if I ever get to be a juror I will nullify this bs. Meanwhile encrypt everything is the lesson here, so punk ass judges can’t screw people over.
What?