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I found it interesting that a lot of the reasons the report gives for not being able to identify the leaker seems to boil down to pretty basic cyber hygiene. "
by pcaharrier 4y ago
I found it interesting that a lot of the reasons the report gives for not being able to identify the leaker seems to boil down to pretty basic cyber hygiene.
"The investigators were not able to readily search and analyze all event logs because at the time the system lacked substantial logging and search functions."
- pcaharrier 4y ago"There was no evidence discovered that anyone emailed the draft opinion to anyone else, although technical limitations in the Court’s computer recordkeeping at the time made it impossible to rule out this possibility entirely."
- oneoff786 4y agoThere’s a very real chance that this boils down to someone deleting the message from their sent box.
- anonporridge 4y agoThe real question is whether this lack strong of auditability is due to IT incompetence or by deliberate design. I'd buy either explanation.
- rayiner 4y agoThe court system operates almost entirely on trust and the threat of career-ending consequences for breach of trust.
- rayiner 4y agoThe federal courts have very basic computer systems. When I was a clerk a decade ago in a circuit court, we didn’t even have a document management system or version control. I think there might have been a shared folder with word versions of old opinions.