Wednesday, August 22, 2001

Oklahoma whistleblower asked to accept felony conviction A Federal prosecutor has asked Brian West, a 24-year old sales and support employee of an Oklahoma ISP "to accept a felony conviction and 5 years probation" for notifying the editor-in-chief of his local newspaper *Poteau Daily News* that they had failed to set up password security for their Web site: no authentication, anyone could edit the site using Microsoft FrontPage. Following their phone conversation, the EIC gave a tape of the conversation to the Poteau Police Department, who invoked the FBI. [http://www.macintouch.com/newsrecent.shtml; PGN-ed] Computer Center Faculty of Agriculture Hebrew University of Jerusalem P.O.B. 12 Rehovot 76100 ISRAEL 972-8-9489232 dvorah@agri.huji.ac.il [Also noted by Ron LaPedis at http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/17/2001/134.html. PGN] [Deborah Weisman via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 62] 0:00 # G!