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Gregg Mayer is a journalist and lawyer with a keen interest in the rapidly evolving world of e-Discovery. Gregg has published numerous articles, including writing for law journals and the American Bar Association. Gregg served as editor-in-chief of the Mississippi Law Journal. Before practicing law, Gregg worked as a newspaper reporter for six years.
Know Where Your Email Goes
Posted by Gregg Mayer on Thursday, March 20th, 2008
If the hyper-secure United States Military can make a mess out of sending email, you can bet everyday companies face the same risks.
A recent article highlighted a huge gaff from the U.S. Air Force and its use of email. The Eastern Daily Press reports that individuals in the Air Force sent hundreds of email messages – including a top secret flight plan for Air Force One – to the wrong email address of factory worker Gary Sinott.
Sinott had set up the Website www.mildenhall.com to promote his hometown. Air Force officials mistakenly sent email to that domain instead of the military site:
What began as a slow trickle of mundane messages soon escalated and hundreds of classified emails were sent from around the world to Mr Sinnott’s website after people mistook www.mildenhall.com for the military website www.mildenhall.af.mil
Mr Sinnott, who is in his mid 40s, said that when he initially reported the problem airbase officials did not appear phased. “At first their attitude was we are not worried, we are American, our security is great.”
But he said that after he informed the base that he had received information detailing the flight path to be used by the plane carrying President Bush on a visit to the region, officials went ‘mental’.
Air Force officials then took steps to block email from going to Sinott’s site. Problems with spam persisted, and eventually Sinott had to close the site down.
Although legal issues revolving around e-Discovery often focus on a company’s archiving of email and how it can be retrieved, this article offers a reminder that companies need to be wary of where email is being sent and who is sending it.
Read the entire article about Sinott and the Air Force here.
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