Hacking the Governator 382
mytrip writes, "The Democratic rival to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged that his aides were responsible for obtaining a controversial audio file, in which the Governator was heard disparaging members of other races, in a move that has led to allegations of Web site hacking. A source close to Angelides told CNET News.com that it was possible to 'chop' off the Web links and visit the higher-level 'http://speeches.gov.ca.gov/dir/' directory, which had the controversial audio recording publicly viewable. No password was needed, the source said." And jchernia notes, "As an aside, the California Highway Patrol is running the investigation — maybe the Internet is a truck after all."
Disparaging members of other races? Hardly (Score:5, Informative)
"I mean Cuban, Puerto Rican, they are all very hot," the governor says on the recording. "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it."
the article continues...
'Garcia, who is Puerto Rican and the only Latina Republican in the assembly, appeared with Schwarzenegger yesterday and said she was not offended by the governor's comments. Garcia earlier told the Times that she refers to herself a "hot-blooded Latina."
"I love the governor because he is a straight talker just like I am," she said.'
CHP (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/history.html [ca.gov]
Re:Wasn't this a crime in the UK? (Score:5, Informative)
When the GST (tax) was launched here in 2000 the tax department had a web site where you could query something about your tax and the cgi script it used had an argument like ?tfn=nnnnnnn where the n's are your tax file number (9 digits).
So this guy tried a couple of combinations, got the details of others, and took it to the tax people with advice to change their security arrangements.
So they did, by locking him up.
Re:Moo (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Here we go again... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Disparaging members of other races? Hardly (Score:3, Informative)
Yeah, except when he hides behind his ESL-credentials and says things like: "I never took steroids, besides, they weren't illegal when I took them." or "I believe that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
Personally, the guy who promised to come in as governor and apply fiscal discipline to solve California's budget crisis - and the first thing he does is put out a measure to borrow 8 billion dollars;
Straight-talking is not an appropriate description.
I don't have a problem with what he said candidly, off the record, behind closed doors, in his office, particularly since there is a personal backstory with rep Garcia.
But Schwartzenegger isn't anything close to a straight talker. He's your typical corporate-lobbyist stooge, just like all the rest. Including Angelides.
Re:CHP == State Trooper (Score:4, Informative)
So its not all that odd that the CHP is running the investigation, other than the fact that there is obviously nothing illegal about accessing publicly-served pages from someone's webserver, so there shouldn't be an "investigation" at all.
Re:gross generalizations (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Wasn't this a crime in the UK? (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_h
Re:gross generalizations (Score:1, Informative)
I think lack of people with brains is how you got the Governator in the first place.
Re:correlation does not denote a casual relationsh (Score:1, Informative)
I think the origin of the unfortunate fallacy of racial homogeneity (at least in the West) is probably skin colour. When comparing Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans, skin colour is a simple characteristic that is essentially universal within each population (i.e. there are no ethnic Europeans with black skin, and no Sub-Saharan Africans with white skin, except perhaps albinos). Most human traits, however, are not simple ones like skin colour, and result from much more complex genetic combinations, together with at least some environmental influences. As such, they tend to vary greatly within populations, and even if there are often statistically significant differences amongst populations, there is typically considerable overlap from one to the next.
An example of the above that I like to use is differences in height between Europeans and Orientals. It can be statistically shown that Europeans are taller than Orientals, but anyone with eyes can see that this is not universal. It can also very easily be seen that height is not homogeneous within populations. As such, the fact that it can be said with some validity that 'Europeans are tall' and 'Orientals are short', it is overwhelmingly clear that there are any number of short Europeans and tall Orientals, and that anyone who claims race is a perfect predictor of height is speaking utter nonsense.