Hacking of governor's (arnie) computer suspected

[Kadie]

Bev Harris is quoted in this article...


CALIFORNIA
Hacking of governor's computer suspected
Published comments had been taped, stored on office server
Carla Marinucci, Tom Chorneau, Chronicle Political Writers

Monday, September 11, 2006


California Highway Patrol officials have opened a criminal investigation into "multiple" breaches and illegal downloads by outside hackers into the computers of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office, after an embarrassing private taped conversation was leaked last week to the Los Angeles Times, administration officials told The Chronicle.

"There is an investigation conducted by the California Highway Patrol on how the tape obtained by the L.A. Times was acquired," said a senior official who spoke on condition of anonymity. "This is a criminal matter that has been turned over to the CHP."

snip...
The leaked tape sparked concern among administration officials because they said the governor has never routinely taped conversations of his staffers. Sources in the governor's office said working materials such as the tape made by Delsohn were available to only a few individuals in the governor's office, and there was immediate suspicion the tapes were obtained by someone hacking into the computers in the governor's office, where the tapes were stored digitally.

snip...
Some experts said government computer systems are among the most vulnerable to outside hackers -- especially some systems used by California state agencies that are well known as antiquated.

"Government systems are penetrated on a regular basis," said Bev Harris, executive director of Black Box Voting, a Seattle-based group concerned about electronic voting and hacking.

"There's a lot of government offices that you wouldn't think would be vulnerable, but they have been penetrated," she said, citing the Pentagon as having its computers recently breached by a hacker.

more...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/11/MNG8KL3A051.DTL

[BeautifulLoser]

1. Whoever hacked that tape

Did the world a service.

[rfranklin]

2. It was the Hot Black Beaver website that tipped them off...

because Arnold prefers the Barely Legal website.