UPDATED 5PM: I added a couple of war stories about a similar experience I saw while in Baghdad, Iraq. Is this too good, or what. It seems the IT Director and the network administrator at the City of Tavares hacked into management's emails and read them. Then, the department assistant used the information to send out anonymous emails slamming the city. Recently, there were articles in the press about the Tavares, City Manager, John Drury, requesting a salary increase, and apparently the articles were based on the anonymous emails sent out. Somewhere, someone got suspicious and the Administration hired a consultant to track down who was using the inside info, and they... got em in a 41 page report. Government workers need to watch out for, and RESPECT email privacy rights, and kudos to City Administrator John Drury for tracking down the culprits. However, keep in mind that in Florida, emails are subject to sunshine open records laws, and anyone could have filed an open records request to get all emails from specific people, and would have gotten them. However, there are rules to redact or edit out certain subjects, and salary discussions could have been one of them. Thus,...
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