Rich Pretexter, Poor Pretexter 121
theodp writes "David Kernell used pretexting to gain access to Sarah Palin's e-mail. And now Kernell faces the possibility of a 20-year prison sentence. HP used pretexting to gain access to its Board's phone records. And now HP faces the possibility of supplying phones to the very companies that were victimized in the HP pretexting scandal. So perhaps Kernell should try coughing up $14.5 million to see if that'll make his pretexting problems disappear. Seems to have worked for HP!"
Ahhh! (Score:5, Funny)
Kernell panic!
Ob (Score:5, Funny)
I know about other people's email. I can read it from my house!
Re:Corporatocracy (Score:5, Funny)
The word you're looking for is Corporatocracy [wikipedia.org]
Protip: If you are going to link Wikipedia to bolster a point, choose an article where virtually every sentence doesn't end with "citation needed".
Re:You know what I think... (Score:4, Funny)
There is no kdawson.
Drawing inspiration from the cartoon world the other editors set up one of those pecking bird novelties to press whatever key moves a submission from the firehose to the front page. They play games with each other by manipulating the office thermostat to affect the rate of peck. When Taco is in the office you see fewer kdawson stories because Taco is warm natured.
I'm not sure this is how pecking birds work but if it isn't there is probably a pecking bird geek in the crowd who will correct me.
They named it kdawson because those are the letters the Chinese characters on its label look most like. Kind of a pinyin for the ignorant.