[Vision2020] UI Email Hacking

[Chasuk]

On 10/19/05, DonaldH675 at aol.com <DonaldH675 at aol.com> wrote:
> These are important questions.  It is curious the way it seems to have faded
> off the radar screen.  Why do you suppose that it has?  Perhaps you would
> email Tim White's office and ask them - or, contact Bill Thompson.  It would
> be great if you could share any results with 2020

I don't know that it has been firmly (i.e., indisputably) established
that any actual "hacking" occurred.  I have heard from several sources
that the FROM: address was not the President's.  That would make this
a prank, amusing to some, but not to others, but still a prank. 
Assuming, for a moment, that it WAS sent from the President's address,
this still doesn't mean that it was hacking, but maybe a matter of
access.  In other words, there might be persons other than Tim White
who have legitimate access to his e-mail account, and this trust was
abused/exploited by someone in the office (a visitor?), when the
authorized user walked away from the terminal, with the terminal still
logged in as Tim.  I'm not blaming anybody in the President's office;
it isn't always possible to supervise hardware (or people) at every
instant.   It didn't read like a spur of the moment composition, so I
am guessing that it was planned, regardless of the circumstance.