Monday, July 28, 2008

What were they thinking? I understand the need to provide the court with adequate evidence (I am not a lawyer), but you would think the prosecutor would at least ask the court to conceal the information when it exposes an entire city's network.

San Francisco DA exposes the city's network passwords:http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9110758&intsrc=hm_list

Maybe it is time to run documents provided to court through a review for sensitivity before actually submitting documents to court? In my own experience, I know that documents containing health information and information about children becomes sealed, and the court has the discretion to seal any information it finds necessary to seal as long as it does not violate the public's right to access of information. Clearly, the public does not need to know San Francisco's network passwords, and the tax payers clearly does not need to see their hard earned money being used to reset all these passwords.

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