Exactly. I agree with Peter.

The issue of the limits of personal vs work emails, and how that could
differentiated is very important, in that some will be public/organizational
records and others probably not be public/organizational records. For all of
us that work 24/7 and merge our work and private lives in daily actitivies,
this differentiation and the consequences are important.

However, just because some hacker (obviously partisan or they would not be
hacking and revealing) says that they got some seemingly unimportant
screeshots or messages does not really tell me anything except that they are
desparate to make claims of some sort or attract attention. Of more interest
and importance, would be what Yahoo is going to do to the hackers, once it
tracks them down! Or what recourse Sarah Palin or anyone else would have
with respect to Yahoo not providing good enough security to protect their
email records.

John

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John T. Phillips
MSLS, CRM, CDIA, FAI
Electronic Records Management
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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Peter Kurilecz
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:48 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: ADMIN was Re: [RM] Be Careful - RE: RAINdrop: Sarah Palin's E-Mail
Secrecy an Open Secret In Alaska...Anchorage Daily - EMAIL HACKED

I agree with what John has written below. The list needs to focus upon the
facts and discuss the issue in a professional manner. We need to leave the
political partisanship at the door and discuss this as if we were facing the
same problem within our organizations. Strip away the names and the
political identity and think of this as if it was a ICRM Part VI case study.
for example
"Governor Jones has two personal internet email accounts that are
occasionally used for government business. The state does not have a clear
cut policy concerning such use nor a technical method for capturing the
emails.  you as the state records manager must as part of your duties draft
a new policy statement that takes into account future communication
technology as well as identifying tools or methods that can be used to
capture these type of emails.""

now have at it.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:34 PM, John Phillips
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

>
> Claims by one group or another can be found on any version of the 
> evening news, where there is at least some attempt to validate those 
> claims. I suggest that we focus on substantive opinion, validated 
> facts, and professional issues debate, or I will ignore threads like this.
>

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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
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