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She was fired in May of 2020. They claim she downloaded it in November. So either the accusation was she hacked into their systems (which they conveniently ar
by tw04 6y ago
She was fired in May of 2020. They claim she downloaded it in November. So either the accusation was she hacked into their systems (which they conveniently aren't claiming), the doc was publicly accessible (in which case I'd question what the crime is), or they planted it and the claim she obtained it illegally is completely fabricated.
Why do I get the feeling as more information comes out, we're going to find out this "600-700 sheets of paper" is an excel spreadsheet with COVID infection information that someone at the state forgot to sanitize before posting for public consumption? And we'll find out she did absolutely nothing wrong, and they're just grasping at straws to make her look bad in the public, hoping she'll go away.
- ABeeSea 6y agoOr government IT never revoked her credentials to some FTP or someone else sent her the file so she could keep working on her data project, etc. If the file was on a public website, then I hope the government smacks the prosecutor down hard. If the file contained citizen PII related to covid, I would hope it’s not on a public website. And if it did contain specific Covid infections for citizens, that’s a HIPAA violation for both her and the government agency if it was on a public website.
- staticautomatic 6y agoThere’s PII all over certain kinds of government websites.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> So either the accusation was she hacked into their systems (which they conveniently aren't claiming), the doc was publicly accessible (in which case I'd question what the crime is), or they planted it and the claim she obtained it illegally is completely fabricated. Or she was fired but her access wasn't terminated because their IT practices are crap, so it was accesses both knowingly without authority and without hacking, just like if physical access controls like keys and let adds weren't updated and she walked in and took confidential documents that she would previously have had lawful access to.