Ranting Saturdays

Rant One:
If it turns out that it's true that HP has been using a firm that gets information in a shady way and that firm got the social security numbers and private phone records of reporters, I am completely disgusted.

No one, I mean NO ONE should get those records except by legal subpeona. They apparently used "pretexting" to fake being the account holder. Here's the deal. If this company did this, it should be jail time, I mean serious, multi-year jail time for every reporter they did that to on fraud charges (IHT reports it could be a 20-year jail term, sounds reasonable in my opinion).

A message MUST be sent that this is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. There is a difference between private investigators and a legal authority. It must be shown in a with a big, thick line. After all, apparently, as many as 2,500 AT&T customers may have been compromised in this manner according to the IHT article linked above.

Even more worrysome, I now read on Slashdot that they got the records of this reporters' father.

Here's the kicker - in my experience, when something like this is discovered, rarely is it the first time it happened. HP just got caught this time. Even more reason to make these people pay and pay dearly so it's less apt to happen in the future.

I also personally hate how the HP spin has been that they need to focus on the leak - everything I've seen, in my opinion, insinuates that they wouldn't have had to do this if the board member came forward. Note to HP - the public doesn't care about your leak anymore.

Rant Two:
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Get some places with WIFI in Downtown Detroit already.

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