Why hacking the U.S. Senate is apparently A-OK

[Desperadoe]

Let's say you happen to gain access to confidential information, either on a Web site or on another individual's system. Do you report it? Do you read the confidential information yet not act on any of it? Or do you read the information and immediately use it to your own personal advantage?

It's a question of ethics, really, one that speaks to the integrity of the individual involved and the security policy in place in a given environment.

Dirty politics in Washington, D.C.
If you are a certain Republican staff member for the politically divided U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, apparently you choose that last option. According to the Boston Globe and other news sources, GOP committee members gained access to computers used by their Democratic colleagues and, from the spring of 2002 well into 2003, both monitored communications and leaked information to the press.

The material obtained through this breach has already been used by columnists and talk show hosts, who offered their audiences unprecedented insight into the inner workings of the Democratic party.<snip>

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-5118858.html

[madrchsod]

1. download a music file and you are a outlaw

if you are a rethug you can break alot of laws and you are a hero. it`s the democrats fault we took them and gave them to the press,it`s the news media`s fault for taking them..it`s never our fault.

[teryang]

2. The Congress is just lucky it isn't

...imprisoned in a bomb shelter in Pennsylvania. That was the original plan but the airliner and the anthrax failed to do the job. This is kid stuff compared to what they really have in mind.