The Labour leader and Catholic Church radio RTK's journalist – Part VII
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October 20, 2011 at 2:07am
Well, now we know why Joseph told Fader Gordinn li jista jirrangalu ma’ tal-Artikej.
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Fader Gordinn il perish priest.
What’s with the medieval door to the boardroon – very ‘new Labour’ for sure.
Well, you never know when you need barricades with those PN thugs.
[Daphne – No, that’s ‘daqxejn stil rustiku.’]
Dak il-bieb gie minn remissa go Burmarrad. Joseph irid ihossu ‘at home’ il-hin kollu.
Can I ask – is it relatively easy for any one with good IT knowledge to hack into Gmail e-mails?
[Daphne – Oh, I really doubt this is hacking. It was probably just a bit of judicious prying by somebody with access to the right computers. You know how careless people can be.]
It’s not hacking, company computers and checking the content of traffic from the internal server are any company’s prerogative.
What she does is one of the reasons why companies do it. She’s finished. Would you employ her giving her access to the company’s sensitive information?
Jozef:
My employers check traffic content through the internal server, just as you say – otherwise you get people chatting, Facebook, Premier League sites, newspaper sites, blogs or, if you are an idiot and fed up with your job or career, porn.
Everybody had prior warning and this web-surfing on company time drastically dropped.
“Would you emply her giving her access to the company’s sensitive information?”
Is it more like: “Would you emply her giving the Leader of the Opposition access to the company’s sensitive information?”
Getting access to a Gmail account is not necessarily difficult and need not involve any technical skills.
What happens all too often is the use of very obvious passwords that are easily guessed.
People who do stupid things (such as sending compromising emails from their employer’s computers) also tend to be the ones to use obvious passwords, such as the mother’s or kid’s name, their date of birth, or perhaps even VivaLabour or something of that sort.
If one knows such a person quite well then it is often easy to guess what password they would use.
I think it more likely that this is what happened rather than the emails being intercepted by RTK. That may also have happened, but I don’t think RTK would have sent them straight to NET TV (or the Times or whoever published them first).