Governator Hacking Update

It appears that the political opponents of Schwarzenegger were the ones that obtained the file. The question now remains whether or not it was obtained legally. The democrat says it was legal. Pardon me while I harumph.

From Drudge:

Democrat Phil Angelides’ gubernatorial campaign acknowledged Monday that it downloaded the digital audio file containing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s controversial private remarks on ethnicity, but said it did nothing inappropriate and accessed the recording through the governor’s “publicly available” Web site, it was reported Tuesday.

But Schwarzenegger’s legal affairs secretary, Andrea Lynn Hoch, said earlier that the access was “unauthorized” and that an internal audit discovered the six-minute audio file was hacked from the private computer system of the Governor’s Office on Aug. 29 and 30.

Angelides campaign manager Cathy Calfo confirmed to the SACRAMENTO BEE that her staff used one computer to access the audio clip on those days. But she said her staff did not hack into the Governor’s Office server and that the file was widely available on Schwarzenegger’s Web site.

I think the file was indeed illegally accessed. And yes, it was downloaded from the website. Both can be true. A staffer from the Democrat’s office used a SQL injection technique to move the files to a public directory on the webserver so it could be downloaded. SQL injections are illegal, and its a federal crime.

If this crime was directed from the Political Opponent, then the crime also becomes conspiracy. They need to get a lawyer. If this was done by a staffer illegally, he will get fired. But leaking the data to the press was also illegally transmitting the data, and Im certain that Angelides was complicit in this crime. How could he deny knowing that the data was leaked to the press or its original source?