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At the end of the day, ANYTHING can be construed and misconstrued by lawyers and politicians. The PATRIOT ACT is just a means to anoint George II absolute Monarch, and destroy the Democracy the US spent 200+ years building.

But you know, as much as these rich buggers play games and get involved in corporate intrigue, the net-net of this story is the PRESS wanting scoops, and GETTING them from an overzealous board member. Who KNOWS what his motivation was to drop info to reporters which compromised the competitive advantage HP held at any given time?

Bottom line, it is the fiduciary DUTY of the board to jealously guard the interests of the shareholders which they did.

HP outsourced the investigation to organizations who specialize in intelligence gathering. I suspect they outsource driver development to organizations who specialize in THAT !!

As much as the various children on this board believe that Mark Hurd and his minions walk the factory floors (as H&P used to) making sure all the screws are tightened on the oscilloscopes, the fact is the office of the CEO cannot afford to micromanage every aspect of a business the size of HP.
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Security Companies Violating Privacy  author20@... | 09/28/06
This sort of email tracing should be illegal as well, and the management  DonnieBoy | 09/28/06
I assume that this only works with Windows. I read an earlier report that  DonnieBoy | 09/28/06
I wouldn't count on that  ebrke | 09/29/06
Oh DonnieBoy...  mustang_z | 09/29/06
do you ever know what you are talking about?  balsover | 09/29/06
Wrong-O  Knorthern Knight | 09/29/06
tor  JDThompson | 09/29/06
HP and the Land of the Free  delphi@... | 09/28/06
Shame on HP??  mustang_z | 09/29/06
Sysadmin integrity  Roger Ramjet | 09/29/06
Email belongs to the company  terry W | 09/29/06
Only in certain cases  k12IT | 10/01/06
SOX  adsanders@... | 09/29/06
Interesting, BUT...  Update victim | 09/29/06
Hunh?!...  mustang_z | 09/29/06
It was NOT ILLEGAL  JackPastor | 09/29/06
Don't Be So Sure  adsanders@... | 09/29/06
I hear you !  JackPastor | 09/29/06
Email Policy  Another IT guy | 09/29/06
No Outrage  adsanders@... | 09/29/06
Thus the reason I don't use HTML when reading email...  shawkins | 09/29/06
another solution....  mroonie | 09/29/06
Simple protection: Thunderbird or SeaMonkey  jesup | 09/29/06
Simple protection: Thunderbird or SeaMonkey or Emacs  jesup | 09/29/06
So does  Troll Hunter | 09/30/06
readnotify feedback  bsiddalls@... | 09/29/06
Nullzone readnotify's servers and be done with it...  Boomslang | 10/01/06
Lamix users need not apply, Linux users understand...  Boomslang | 10/01/06
Email Privacy??  Dumber_z | 10/02/06
Precident for Clarity - it should be illegal  ronstephen@... | 10/03/06
Message has been deleted.  myfevertoy | 10/22/06
Warning Will Robinson WARNING!  mikeholli | 10/30/06
this i way to easy to do to outlaw  ses_27 | 11/16/06

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