EMail has been around for a while now and you would have thought by now that people should have realise that you only put into an email what you would be happy to be seen on the front page of a newspaper. Yet time and again it would seem that people think that emails are in any way confidential…they are not.
Of course it is not just emails that can get people in hot water.
‘…. Obama as Joffery..the spoiled boy king who’s out of his league! With any luck he’ll end up about a foot shorter!…’
This was a comment on Facebook and I suspect the comment was left when no real thought as to what it says. Perhaps I’m misreading this but is the person who left this wishing for the execution by decapitation of the President of the United Sates? I’m sure that should some gentleman or lady from the FBI were to pay this man a visit then I’m sure he would be profoundly shocked. And of course if the FBI have any problems finding him he has left wonderful amount of information on Facebook to help in his apprehension.
From ill conceived comments like this, to the Libor scandal to Vicky Price its the emails wot helped to convict them. In Watergate the journalists were told to follow the money. Now it would seem to be Read the Emails. Goodness only knows what Richard M. Nixon would have put in his emails if it had been around at the time.
Simon Marchini
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