Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared

Tiger4 writes "Verizon has confirmed that some of its employees have accessed and perhaps shared calling records of President Elect Barack Obama (coverage at CNN, Reuters, AP). Verizon says the people involved have all been put on leave with pay as the investigation proceeds. Some of the employees may have accessed the information for legitimate purposes, but others may have been curiosity seekers and may have even shared the information around. The account was 'only' a phone, not a BlackBerry or similar device, and Verizon believes it was just calling records, not voicemail or email that was compromised. The articles do not mention the similarity to the warrantless wiretapping or hospital records compromises of recent months. But that immediately sprang to mind for me."

Re:Thats OK.

[tritonman]

This is something new, the citizens wiretapping and spying on the president. I guess we truly will see change with Obama.

Re:What legitimate purpose?

[chill]

Reverse traces.

They were probably investigating a complaint from the Governor's residence in Alaska. All those mysterious calls that would just be insane, taunting laughter, then a hang-up.

Probably just a wrong number, but still, you can never be too sure.

Re:Justifications

[BVis]

No more coffee for you.

Re:Thats OK.

[Anonymous Coward]

Any sufficiently lost encryption key is indistinguishable from a one-time-pad

Kilmer who?

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Never heard of him. You talk as though he was some kind of Super Star like Rajnikant.

Re:Constantly have these issues in health care

[e-scetic]

Hollywood is the US national religion, more popular even than Christianity. The mere sight of a film star drives the masses to ecstasy, people want to touch them...

Some religions would hold that at least one commandment is being violated - something about false gods or idols or something

Re:Transparency

[halcyon1234]

You're going to trust people that are buying and selling laws to record their conversations?

Of course not. That's why we should get a law passed to make it mandatory. It'll be tough to pass, but I know a couple palms we could grease (off the record, of course)

Re:Data Theft

[Joce640k]

If he's doing nothing wrong he's got nothing to worry about.

Right?

Re:Collect?

[neomunk]

Didn't Rush tell you? It's because he's a crazy mixed-breed half A-Rab half Aztec TER'RIST! *waves hands spookily* Boogety boogety boogety!

Re:Thats OK.

[MrNaz]

Bill Clinton had terrible taste in women. I really do not want to see any of his partners in *anything* transparent.