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NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 01:48 PM Dec 2015

Anyone with any sort of training handling classified or otherwise confidential information

knows the only time they're allowed to access such restricted information is when they've been given express authorization by a designated individual for that specific information.

Accessing that information in any way other than that is unethical, and in many instances, illegal.

Not when the firewalls or any other security measure are down.

Not to check on how vulnerable your data might be.

Not if someone else steals and publishes that information in another venue.

Not if a subordinate authorized to view the data hands it to them.

This is an absolutely basic principle of handling confidential and classified information, and someone at the Sanders campaign absolutely failed to abide by it.

That's not the Clinton campaign's fault, not DWS, not the DNC, and not the vendor. Someone with that sort of access should have enough integrity to not break that rule.

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Anyone with any sort of training handling classified or otherwise confidential information (Original Post) NuclearDem Dec 2015 OP
Fail #528 on this topic PowerToThePeople Dec 2015 #1
you know that dust cloth? can we borrow it? sheesh. Hiraeth Dec 2015 #2
Agree totally with your OP. That is just basic ethics 101. justhanginon Dec 2015 #3

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
3. Agree totally with your OP. That is just basic ethics 101.
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 04:42 PM
Dec 2015

You don't always need a class or a commandment to know or should when somethings are just inherently wrong to do, be it morally or ethically.

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