RE: Only for society's elite

Does not surprise me. I'm not real impressed with the Arizona law
officials. Back some months ago, I reported to the Arizona Dept. of
Corrections that they had a directory on their web server, "_private/",
and that in there was a text file open to the public where they were
placing all ADC employee requests for jobs. I thought that the webmaster
should know about that since it probably had sensitive information about
the ADC employees.

Well, I get a call from the chief criminal investigator of the ADC,
investigating on the behest of the AG's office, informing me that I've
committed under Arizona law a felony by "seeing" a file that was not
linked to by the web site, thus I had "hacked" the web site, and the
investigation was merely to determine whether the "felony" I had
committed was done with bad, "hacking",  intentions or some other
reason.

They rattled my cage and "determined" that while I had committed a
"felony" under Arizona Law, I had not done so with bad intentions, and
such was reported back to the State's Attorney General Office.

I will not be vacationing in Arizona, ever.

Ah, Arizona, the state where a brightly colored, happy, flashing
animated "NEW" GIF file is beside every new death row inmate.



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The Community Relations web site for the Police Department of the City
of Chandler, AZ had a similar problem and Kathee and I offered
suggestions to improve accessibility and we offered to fix it for them
for free.

Someone called us and we talked about AzTeC ( Arizona Free-Net
http://aztec.asu.edu ) users and the fact that they could not access the
site.  We talked about the blind people in the community and the people
with older computers. They responded back:

"We don't want those people going to our site."
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